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TIL: in 1984, East Germany gave 5000 fake gas masks to Iran

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Wk9l8 TIL Wyatt Earp was the last surviving participant of the OK Corral shootout, dying in 1929, aged 80. He'd held many jobs throughout his career, one of which was as an enforcer at a brothel. In his later years, he’d consulted on Hollywood westerns and gotten to known various actors and directors.
8aXlZ TIL that, in 1922, Governor of Indiana Warren McCray was offered $10,000 to allow the Ku Klux Klan to become chartered, but refused, the Klan later claimed he was involved in mail fraud, causing McCray to be found guilty and serve three years in prison, when he was paroled and later given a pardon
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XKZR TIL that there is a a font that makes reading text easier for people with dyslexia
jNlAM TIL that the tea company, Twinnings, has the world's oldest continually-used company logo. The firm's logo was created in 1787, and has been in continuous use since it was made.