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TIL Nintendo Used To Run Love Hotels, Where It’s Ex-CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi Was One Of It’s Most Reliable Customers

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b9Ox7 TIL about the Banana Massacre of 1928, where the US threatened Colombia with military invasion if it didn't end the ongoing Chiquita workers' strike. The Colombian army fired on unarmed protesters, men, women, and children, killing somewhere between 800 and 3,000.
n0P9 TIL Al Pacino boycotted the 1973 Academy Awards because he was insulted at being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in The Godfather, noting that he had more screen time than his co-star and Best Actor winner Brando
Xmwk TIL Students at an Illinois High School played Justin Bieber’s single, “Baby” over the PA system continuously for three days until the students donated $1,000 to the school’s art center
wXNM TIL that acid in the 60s was so much stronger that you would have to eat 7.8 tabs of today’s acid to have a similar experience.
N7bPM TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.