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TIL Eleanor Roosevelt’s civil rights work angered the Ku Klux Klan so much that they put a $25,000 bounty on her.

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nVnP TIL To this day you still cannot become king or queen of England if you are or ever been a Roman Catholic
GY1Eg TIL that Bhutan is the only country that absorbes more CO2 than it produces.
9BOr TIL Ataturk criticized Islam saying “It is no good for modern, progressive state. God’s revelation! There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weaklings. No weaklings should rule!”
nXRb TIL that Great Britian still owes 30 Hawker Hurricanes to Latvia. Latvia ordered and paid for them before the 2nd World War.
Bryvb TIL when Paul Verhoeven first received the script for Robocop, he threw it away in disgust after glancing through it. His wife picked it up from the bin and read through it more thoroughly, and persuaded him that it had more substance than he initially thought.