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TIL Beverly Hills was planned as an all-white community with legal agreements preventing non-whites from owning or renting property. These laws also prevented Jewish people from doing the same.

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GYWBE TIL that back in May 2016, in order to show the absurdities of software EULAs, the Norwegian Consumer Council did a live, word-by-word, non-stop reading of all of Apples and 3rd party EULAs on an "average" iPhone. It took them over 32 hours.
MQna TIL Johnny Depp staged a pirate mutiny at a middle school, at the request of a student. He warned the school only 10 minutes prior.
69edm TIL smoking alcohol is a growing trend, and very dangerous.
ZpaNo TIL that during the Battle of the Chateauguay, an American officer ordered the Canadian forces to surrender. However, because the American officer did not have a truce flag properly displayed, the Canadians simply shot and killed him.
OoaE1 TIL Interracial marriage was made fully legal in all U.S. States only 51 years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court decision deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional in 1967.