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Til: There used to be real human remains in Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride

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oRMVK TIL in 1993 Canadian election, Progressive Conservative party ran an ad focusing Liberal party leader's facial paralysis. PC party lost 154 seats and got only 2.
oRyGr TIL that in the original United States Articles of Confederation, "Canada" (Quebec) had an open invitation to join the United States at their own choosing. Other colonies could only be admitted by a vote of existing states.
W7NRA TIL during WW2, Lyndon B. Johnson had his seat stolen by Lt. Col. Francis R. Stevens on the Wabash Cannonball after returning from a bathroom break. The plane would be downed by the Japanese, killing everyone on board.
9w8mr TIL “Scared Straight” interventions are ineffective and may in fact increase delinquency relative to no treatment at all
78B8Z TIL that Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, one of the city’s most historic and prestigious cemeteries, maintained racially discriminatory burial policies for decades and only officially removed these restrictions in 1973.