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TIL that there was a Confederate Army brigadier general with the given name "States Rights"

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m6PY TIL In 1969, Nixon wanted to slash the PBS budget in half, from $20 million to $10 million. Mr. Rogers himself went in front of the committee to talk about what his show accomplished. And ….in less than 5 minutes, the tide turned. Watch:
p8By8 TIL in 1955, Jack Graham placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase in order to collect on insurance he purchased moment before her flight. The blast killed her and 43 other people on the plane
Oovxa TIL During WWII Ronald Reagan, then a captain in the First Motion Picture Unit producing training films for the US Air Force, obtained a film reel depicting the liberation of Auschwitz. He held on to it, believing doubts would someday arise as to whether the Holocaust had really happened
1AKO TIL UC Berkeley is developing a free timeline of the history of everything– Starting from the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago to the present.
D1aGJ TIL in the 1950s and 60s Canada spent ‘thousands and thousands’ making a ‘gaydar’ to detect homosexual government employees