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TIL of Operation Underworld during WW2 when the US government cooperated with the mafia and organized crime to protect Northeastern seaports

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4kolg TIL upon the unification of Germany in 1871, Ulysses S. Grant expressed that he thought the German union to be quite similar to the American Union and said that he thought of it as a reproduction of the "best features of the U.S. Constitution.
694YY TIL: In 1962, a bear caused a false alarm at a US air base and almost caused nuclear war
DAg TIL that Jesse Owens said “Hitler didn’t snub me–it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram,” and that Owens was cheered enthusiastically by 110,000 people in Berlin, but couldn’t even stay in the same hotels as whites in America.
adkZ TIL a cup of apple juice has more calories than a cup of Coca Cola
epjw6 TIL that Philippe I, Duke of Orléans was encouraged by his mother to act and dress like a woman. She also called him “my little girl”. He continued dressing and acting like a woman as an adult and was described as “the silliest woman who ever lived". Philippe also openly took male lovers.