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TIL that the 3rd Plague Pandemic (yersinia pestis) officially ended in 1959.

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09vy TIL Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Walking Dead) worked on a script for ‘Indiana Jones 4’ for over a year; the results loved by Spielberg and Harrison Ford. George Lucas hated the drafts however, and Darabont told Lucas 'You’re insane’ before leaving the project.
v1lW7 TIL A group of students in Iran spent years reconstructing thousands of shredded CIA secret documents, and subsequently published them
Yp18G TIL in 1818, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer described the post-orgasm moment of clarity as "devil's laughter", explaining: "They have fulfilled their need to reproduce and are momentarily caught in the abyss of meaninglessness."
JBMB TIL that more than 90% of all zippers in the world are made by the japanese based company YKK
v1W1K TIL that from 1956 to 1977, Mississippi had a government commission empowered to investigate anyone suspected of supporting Black civil rights, and that encouraged businesses and landlords to fire and evict Black residents.