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TIL that in Feb 1942, a ship capsized off the coast of newfoundland. One of the 46 survivors was being cared for by local women who were trying to wash what they thought was oil off his skin. The women had never seen a black man before and we’re actually trying to wash the color off his skin.

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N7rgE TIL Amsterdam employs alcoholics as street cleaners and pays them with beer. In addition to the five cans, they also get €10 ($11.36) and half a pack of loose tobacco for each 6.5 hour shift.
QLXE TIL the US government arrested (Using Patriot Act) and detained a woman claiming to be a CIA agent, argued that she be forcibly drugged (3 drugs), because she was trying to tell Congress that CIA knowingly ignored intelligence for 9/11
KOAp4 TIL that in 1980s in small town in Missouri, a horrible town bully was killed in front of 46 witnesses, and not a single one of them wanted to say who did it
Z8boG TIL The first song ever played on the lunar surface was "Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra. Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, took the cassette with him on the mission, and subsequently he played it off when he stepped onto the moon's surface shortly after Armstrong.
YpP4d TIL before the Mayflower, Squanto was kidnapped, sold into slavery in Spain, and escaped back to North America, only to find his entire tribe wiped out from disease. The site he later helped the Pilgrams settle at was the summer village of his tribe, Plymoth Rock.