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TIL during the forced removal of Native Americans to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears, many African American slaves were owned by tribes and forced to go as well. After the Civil War, the Freedmen founded their own communities and Oklahoma became home to over 50 All-Black Towns and settlements.

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4XG8X TIL of Ralph Bunche, a Black American diplomat who: was the first Afr. American in the US to earn a PhD in PoliSci; worked for the OSS in WWII; helped design and create the UN; won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the first Arab-Israeli war; 'invented' peacekeeping; and marched with Dr. King
kOPLm TIL: The Library of Alexandria, one of the largest ancient stores of knowledge, burned down, losing anywhere between 40k - 400k scrolls. It is said that even today, scholars still mourn its loss as one of the largest known scholarly losses of all time.
N7NNP TIL Canadian police gave 40,000 "positive tickets" a year to youths. The initiative ended up reducing complaints about youth by 50% and transformed the relationship between cops/kids. "If you reward good behavior, your return on investment will be more good behavior."
klME TIL that East Germany lives on - as a tiny island off Cuba. In 1972, Fidel Castro gifted the island to East Germany. The island was not addressed in the 1990 reunification, and as such is still technically East German territory, even though the nation no longer exists.
OoP5g TiL about the December 14th 1944 Palawan massacre where Japanese imperial soldiers lit American soldiers on fire by sounding an air raid siren to lead them to a trench filled with gasoline instead of an air raid shelter. Of the 150 American POWs only 11 survived and escaped to American lines.