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TIL Memphis has an advertising campaign to discourage murder called Real Men Don't Murder

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b9Pw0 TIL Red Summer: January 1 and September 14, 1919, white mobs lynched at least 43 African Americans, with 16 hanged and others shot; while another 8 men were burned at the stake.
PGLL TIL that in all figs we eat, there is a corpse of a fig-wasp inside that has deposited it’s eggs inside the fig meanwhile pollinating it. The wasp never leaves the fig again and dies inside.
wLNkE TIL that both the Carpathia (which rescued Titanic's passengers) and the Californian (which was nearby but allegedly never saw Titanic's distress signals) were both sunk in WW1. Carpathia lies in 600 feet of water off of Ireland and California lies somewhere off of Greece but has never been found
QJ64M TIL During the height of the Cold War, the US built an embassy in Moscow that was so riddled with eavesdropping equipment, by 1985 the building was abandoned after spending $136 million. Eventually, the embassy was taken apart brick by brick and rebuilt over 15 years at a cost of $240 million.
QR9E TIL that during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact soldiers, road signs in towns were removed or painted over to confuse invading troops—except for those indicating the way to Moscow.