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4Xrn6 TIL that cricket was the only sport approved by Taliban during their rule of Afghanistan.
8evO4 TIL the first Blue LED wasn't commercially available until 1989 and bright blue LEDs weren't available until 1993.
M7j9A TIL that A Time to Kill by John Grisham was inspired by the case of a black man named Willie James Harris. Grisham swapped the races for his novel
OoEL4 TIL that we can sleep with our eyes open - Weird but true.
xY4k TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops