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TIL Lloyd Robertson is the longest-serving network news anchor in television history!

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G9kg TIL that a Greek prime minister in 1830’s tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren’t interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People later started stealing these potatoes a lot which spread the crop to all of Greece.
x45 TIL the USAAF filmed hundreds of hours of post-war Europe in summer 1945, most of which has never been seen. Special Film Project 186 has been called “the biggest color film project of World War II—and the biggest unseen film of all time.”
V0JZ TIL a jury of 6 whites and 6 blacks ruled in 1999 that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, most likely by the police and CIA, and covered up by the FBI.
Lpo9 TIL some Canadian police departments issue ‘positive tickets’ thanking citizens for doing something good.
OMwa TIL: The Virgin Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran.