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TIL white people were also sold into slavery in the ante-Bellum South

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oR7AL TIL in the 80s a german ice hockey club was sponsored by Muammar Gaddafi and had his manifesto "The Green Book" on their shirt
YZwv TIL that police in Belfast, Northern Ireland used music from ice cream van to calm angry teen rioters.
6Ed98 TIL that Neil Armstrong earned his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering in 1970...AFTER landing on the moon
ExkX TIL there is a huge catfish known as the Piraiba, one of which was reported as having swallowed a human whole in the 90s.
R7K9l TIL that the legendary 1981 film "Das Boot" was shot as if it were a silent film, with all of the dialogue and sound added later, because the cameras and their newly developed gyroscopic stabilizers, used for the submarine interiors, drowned out the dialogue and diegetic sound.