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TIL there's a fake American Wild West town in England, called Laredo, built by re-enactors, who bring it to life every other weekend.

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aoRb TIL the day before the 1996 US presidential election, the NYT Crossword contained the clue “Lead story in tomorrow’s newspaper” – the puzzle was built so that both electoral outcomes were correct answers, requiring 7 other clues to have dual responses
brX0 TIL that Olympic skeet shooting was open to both sexes … until a woman won gold in 1992.
10w4 TIL Claudette Colvin was the actually first African-American woman to refuse to move to the back of the bus nine months before Rosa Parks did, but the NAACP did not want to use her to represent the movement as she was 15 years old and pregnant.
6NQ8 TIL There’s a lake in India full of ancient skeletons, all killed by blows to the head.
kJ0we TIL Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, AKA ‘Butcher of Lyon’ for his torture of Jews and French resistance, was smuggled by the US to Bolivia for anticommunist work. For 30 years he also aided multiple dictatorial regimes, paramilitary groups, and even Pablo Escobar with security and torture services