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TIL people during the American Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s were encouraged to march in their finest clothes so as to reframe the very idea of what a disrupter looked like.

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6Ek7l TIL many farmers are cracking their JD tractors with premium pirated software made by eastern europeans due to how expensive repairing their machines is.
oR19W TIL Two-thirds of Toronto's original Chinatown was demolished for the construction of Nathan Phillips Square and City Hall in 1965
DQdae Today I learned of dark lightning, known also as Terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF). Dark lightning discharges from storm clouds and flings antimatter into space.
ZxDQ TIL after WW2, a Jewish assassin group nicknamed “nokmim” sought out those who terrorized jews and/or their families during the war and meticulously executed them.
XZ8E TIL Terry Jones of Monty Python purchased the “Flying Circus” tapes mere weeks before the BBC was scheduled to wipe them in the 1970’s along with countless other TV shows now lost.