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TIL about Derek Black, son of former KKK Grand Wizard Don Black and Godson of David Duke. Derek; the host of a white nationalist radio show and heir-apparent leader of the “white nationalists” publicly renounced his beliefs and broke all ties with the group in 2012 - at the age of 23.

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D6rg TIL that a failed coup lead by pilots of King’s Hassan II of Morocco attacked his Boeing 727 jetliner using four Northrop F-5 jets. Damaging the fuselage, the king himself grabbed the radio and shouted “Stop firing! The tyrant is dead!” Fooling the rebel pilots to break off their attack.
DQ5vD TIL Amanda Coker biked 86,573 miles in one year (eq. to circling the earth 3.5 times) - 2 years after recovering from brain and spinal injuries.
XE08R TIL Actor Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Star Trek, MI:) once pretended to be kidnapped by aliens, tweeting he was going to check some noises in his attic, then disappearing from Twitter for 3 days. He re-appeared 5 mins after the time-of-day he "disappeared" & tweeted "everything's fine, nothing there".
P1N0V TIL after realizing their tail-warning radars had the opposite effect - attracted luftwaffe to their night raids rather than increase survivability - The RAF decided to abuse this fact to intentionally lure german aircraft into deadly traps using their mosquito night fighters
0wy5j TIL Sardinians split off from mainland Europeans about 4300-7000 years ago and have remained largely isolated genetically. They're the closest proxy to the Early European farmers who migrated all over Europe from Anatolia, introduced agriculture, and mostly replaced the European hunter-gatherers