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TIL about the Rosewood massacre which was a racially motivated massacre of blacks and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida.

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bpWj TIL the most powerful gangs in the United States have a presence in the US military. Gangster Disciples, Crips, Bloods, 18th Street, Nortenos, Black Disciples, Surenos, Latin Kings, Vice Lords, African Nations, Aryan Nations, Aryan Brotherhood and Ku Klux Klan graffiti has been documented in Iraq.
OoVd1 TIL: Venus Flytraps are native to North and South Carolina
694RW TIL that a Beatles knockoff, Los Shakers, were one of the most successful and influential bands of the 1960s in Argentina and Uruguay. The band imitated the Beatles’ looks, music, changed genres as the Beatles did, spearheaded the “Uruguayan invasion”, and even sang mostly in English
kOPme TIL the song American Woman was made by accident. While playing at a show in Ontario, Randy Bachman broke a guitar string. While tuning his guitar he came up with a great riff, he implored Burton Cummings to sing something, the first words out of his mouth were, "American woman, stay away from me."
nVaB TIL that when NBC was broadcasting the 2012 London Olympic opening ceremony for the US, they skipped over the 7/7 London terror attack tribute and instead showed Ryan Seacrest interviewing Michael Phelps