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TIL Philadelphia Police bombed a residential neighborhood from a helicopter in May 1985

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yQY7e TIL Norwegians eat less sugar today than they did in 1975
8eQe8 TIL that Sugar Ray Robinson had won all but one of his previous 132 fights, when he was defeated by unknown British boxer Randolph Turpin in 1951. Turpin became the first Brit to hold the middleweight championship since 1891
e0wDk TIL that on January 31st the U.S. will see the first supermoon, blue moon, and lunar eclipse sync up since 1866.
wdrP TIL Xu QinXian, the commander of China’s most elite army in 1989, refused to open fire on civilians at Tiananmen, stating: “the People’s Army has never in its history been used to suppress the people, I absolutely refuse to besmirch this historical record!” He was court martialled but not executed.
JYkVl TIL of "Sputnikfest" an annual celebration held in the city of Manitowoc, WI where people dress up as aliens and science fiction characters to commemorate a 20lb piece of a Russian satellite crashing down in the city back in 1962