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gM6p8 TIL the founder of the KKK, a Confederate cavalry general, later ordered the klan to disband and called for racial harmony between whites and blacks
4XOZ6 TIL That the term "Agnostic" was coined in 1869 by T.H. Huxley, and not as a description, but as a creed: "to follow reason as far as it can take you, but then, when you have established as much as you can, frankly and honestly to recognize the limits of your knowledge."
Bdoy TIL that Prince Philip is one of the most gaffe prone people of all time, having once said “If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes” to a British student while on a trip to China. Here is 90 of his best.
R5Zg7 TIL that on average, the objects within our Solar System's asteroid belt are about one million kilometers or 600,000 miles apart from each other. For reference, the Earth's diameter is 12,742 kilometers or 7,917.5 miles
R7EA9 TIL in WWII, the Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany became one of the Western Allies greatest and highest-level sources in Berlin, offering up information on the invasion of the Soviet Union, German defenses at the Atlantic Wall, and more...without ever knowing his cables had been decrypted