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Today I learned that Canada admitted to letting in 2,000 Ukrainian SS troopers

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49ga TIL The first color broadcast was in 1958 when a TV presenter pushed a button to change black and white into color for President Eisenhower’s speech
xd9o TIL that after the Great Fire of London, an economist by the name of Nicholas If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone played a major role in pioneering fire insurance. (His very religious father, Praise-God Barebone chose his somewhat unusual middle name)
e0ek5 TIL: During WW2 black U.S soldiers stationed in England were drinking in a pub with local people when U.S Military police arrived to stop them getting served and arrest them for not segregating. The white local people in the pub defended the black men, which eventually led to a riot and gunshots.
ADolx TIL Hobby Lobby was fined $3,000,000 for the illegal smuggling of over 5,500 cuneiform tablets from the middle east
6PVl TIL that 3 black kids formed a protopunk band called DEATH, in 1971, whose music is only now being discovered.