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TIL In 1962 the Canadian Navy accidentally shelled an American town with live rounds

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9YNbB TIL 5-year-old William Everetz wanted to spend his allowance on kindness, so he saved his money for 5 months to buy lunch for the entire Winslow Township in NJ. He bought them Subway so they could ‘be healthy’ and the police gave him a shirt and badges, and made him an honorary officer
OoYAg TIL Stalin saved the Chinese written script by talking Mao out of completely replacing it with full scale romanization
vPBaL TIL the peace sign consists of the semaphore signs for N and D, for Nuclear Disarmament - designed by Gerard Holtom for the 1958 British Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament. How did I not know that?
NXP0P TIL Houston police used Whataburger numbers as crime scene evidence markers.
gMM8X TIL that black nationalist Marcus Garvey created a shipping line called the Black Star Line with the goal returning African-Americans to Africa