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TIL the largest mass lynching in the U.S. was of Italian Americans in New Orleans.

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VNy0 TIL A car crashed through the front window of the struggling Cape Cod Potato Chips store in 1980, almost hitting the owner’s daughter. The subsequent insurance payment and publicity from the accident helped tide the company over until the following summer, by which time business was booming.
d8X08 TIL the human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time.
OoG0e TIL of the Conet Project, a compilation of records from shortwave stations believed to encoded spy communications, which some have lead to the arrest of spies (audio link in comments)