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TIL George Lindsey (Goober Pyle) was Gene Roddenberry's first choice to play Spock on 'Star Trek'

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xV8B1 TIL that in 1969 the Rolling Stones hired the Hell's Angels to provide security for their gig at the Altamont Free Concert for a fee of $500 worth of beer. A man by the name of Meredith Hunter Jr. drew a revolver at the stage and was stabbed and kicked to death by the Hell's Angels.
N8Je TIL that the second flag of the Confederate States of America was, in the words of its creator W.T. Thompson, a symbol of the “supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race”.
9QgB TIL that the division symbol is called an “obelus,” and was used in ancient manuscripts to mark passages that were suspected of being corrupted or spurious.
PYGRZ TIL Budapest, Hungary declares lomtalanítás or "get-rid-of-junk" days where residents pile mountains of trash in the streets. Scavengers, scrappers, and collectors sift through the piles before sanitation workers clean it all up.
o6Wo TIL all vanilla beans must be hand pollinated because the only species of bee capable of pollinating a vanilla bean orchid is likely extinct.