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TIL that the man who invented Kwanzaa served 4 years in prison for torturing 2 black women

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wooV7 Til that: When the Butzke family fled Austria in 1940, they sewed valuables into their son's teddy bear. When German soldiers tried to take the bear, the boy screamed until it was thrown back at him. The valuables helped them start a new life when they immigrated to the U.S
gMoJb TIL the first hostile aerial bombardment on U.S. soil happened in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white police forces took to the air to drop incendiary bombs and dynamite on the business district in the black neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as the "Black Wall Street."
nZaB TIL that the Netherlands provides free heroin to addicts three times a day, along with clinics in which to do the drug
Y79rA TIL about Richard Sakakida, an American spy operating in the Philippines before the attack on Pearl Harbor, who spied on the Japanese community in Manila before he was captured after the fall of Corregidor. During his capture, he was tortured and eventually led a jailbreak of about 500 prisoners.
d8Zn9 TIL that the clothing brand Abercrombie & Fitch actually paid Jersey Shore actors not to wear their brand