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TIL: The US Military Secretly Sprayed Radioactive Materials On Blacks In St. Louis

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5Y8GB TIL about Festa Confederada, the annual festival of Southern US heritage held in Brazil, originally started by Confederate soldiers and their families who fled to Brazil after the Civil War, where slavery was still legal.
8eklZ TIL The Ashoka Diamond, named after Ashoka the Great (a 3rd-century Indian emperor), is a breathtaking 41.37-carat D-flawless diamond of extraordinary cut. Harry Winston sold it to Mexican actress María Félix, and it was eventually sold at Sotheby's in 1988 for $3.85 million and never seen again.
GxAJ TIL Australia hasn’t had a recession in almost 25 years.
6orZ TIL that Japan’s Hitashi Seaside Park covers an area of 190 hectares with 4.5 million flower blossoms. Come spring, the Nemophila seeds create a landscape of perpetual blue.
6EyE7 TIL one 1990 episode of Quantum Leap managed to predict some of the events of the 1996 Super Bowl. Not only did the screenwriter correctly predict that the Pittsburgh Steelers would be playing, the Steelers also ended up trailing by 3 at some points of the game, just like in the show.