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TIL The Nation of Islam states that White People are “Devils” created by a scientist named Yakub on the Greek Island of Patmos.

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a0Eb TIL that if you stood every single human being shoulder to shoulder we would fill the entire city of Los Angeles.
4kL5o TIL of the President's (Bush 43) 100 Degree Club. Run a 5K or Bike 10mi at his Crawford Ranch once the thermometer hits triple digits, and you get a custom Under Armour shirt as well as a picture with the President.
5dD8 TIL that Dockers recently increased the size of their ‘coin pockets’ to accommodate the growing size of smartphones
X9a8 TIL Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966 and is an African-American thing, not an African holiday
m1aYo TIL of Operation Plumbbob, where a nuclear bomb was detonated in a vertical tunnel with a 2,000lb (900kg) metal plate plugging the surface. The plate was launched into the air at 6 times Earth's escape velocity