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TIL that former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke authored a self-help sex manual for women on how to perform fellatio and anal sex under the pen-name of Dorothy Vanderbilt.

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A7ad TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.
8Z4b TIL that in 1925 KKK membership peaked at somewhere between 3 and 6 million, meaning that at least 2.6% of the population of the united states was a member
7L6L TIL Demand for quinoa in Western nations has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, where quinoa is from, can no longer afford their staple crop
XyP6 TIL of 96 year old Harold Fairweather, widely believed to be the oldest person with a living parent. His mother is Violet Brown and is of 116 years of age.
rNDE0 TIL that Robert Oppenheimer visited Japan as an honored guest of the Japan Committee for Intellectual Interchange in 1960