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x4a7 TIL Butterfly McQueen, one of the stars of “Gone with the Wind,” was unable to attend the film’s premiere because it was held in a whites-only theater
BjGW TIL the U.S. spends roughly $50.1B in foreign aid each year which is only 1.2% of the Federal government’s budget.
e0GxJ TIL that the town of Times Beach, Missouri had to be completed evacuated in 1985 and demolished in 1992, at the order of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, due to its soil being contaminated by dioxin
YpKOZ TIL that North Koreans have had a long-held belief that Kim Il-sung had the ability to teleport until it was debunked by North Korean state-run media recently
BwlD TIL: A group of Swedish scientists have included Bob Dylan lyrics in every scientific paper they wrote for the last 17 years