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00EN TIL Blockbusting, a business practice used by real estate brokers to buy a house in a white neighbourhood, rent it to a black family, and buy the rest of the neighbourhood at a discounted price after urging nervous white families to leave the neighbourhood.
gGP8 TIL Soviet pilots delivered MiG-29 fighter jets to Yugoslavia wearing suits and ties, because they had to go back on a civilian flight, and there was no place for luggage.
b6no7 TIL As a teenager, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping went to Europe on a work-study program designed by anarchists who hoped a Western education would create a cohort capable of reviving China
aweJJ TIL that the blue whale's penis has its own separate wiki page.
XEmY8 TIL in 2000, the Missouri chapter of the KKK won a court battle to allow them to participate in the Adopt-a-Highway program. The state legislature promptly renamed the stretch of I-55 they were assigned to clean as the “Rosa Parks Highway”