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TIL Robin Hood was called to be removed from Indiana textbooks for being communist

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g8l4 TIL Jack Ruby, the guy who killed Oswald on live TV, claimed that the JFK assassination “was an act of overthrowing the government” and that he had been injected with cancer cells in prison to silence him. By 1966, Ruby was dead from cancer in his liver, lungs and brain.
D1dQY TIL container ships lose 2,000 to 10,000 containers at sea each year.
MYkK TIL Chipotle has a policy of bringing ingredients to the tables of disabled diners and doing tableside preparation so they don’t miss out on the “Chipotle experience”
JYAwm TIL all the gold ever mined in human history is smaller than the statue of liberty.
AWpg TIL on Christmas Day 1826, cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point including future Confederacy President Jefferson Davis threw a booze-fueled party and eventual mutiny that ended with twenty court martials. It was known as the “Eggnog Riot”.