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TIL the FBI seized a server that was being used to host child pornography and ran it for two more weeks. Defendants caught in the sting argued the FBI did a better job hosting a child porn site than whoever originally ran it: The site’s average weekly visitors jumped from 11,000 to 50,000

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epeBk TIL that in World War 1, the American Expeditionary Forces attempted to enforce Jim Crow laws on the French to regulate the treatment of Black soldiers and officers. This was done because they were worried that these individuals were being treated with excessive familiarity and indulgence.
yVXWp TIL Lincoln said “there is a physical difference between the white and black races which..will forever forbid the 2..from living together on terms of social and political equality..there must be a position of superior and inferior..I as much as any am in favor of having the superior..the white race”
1Ek7 TIL in 2002 a 15-year-old boy tried to replicate the attacks on 9/11 by crashing a plane into an office building
D17Pe TIL that the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This was one of the earliest known accounts of biological warfare.
y1rl TIL that William Marston was a polyamorous psychologist and inventor whose wife, Elizabeth Holloway, inspired him to create a female superhero who triumphed via love (Wonder Woman), and the affinity for metallic bracelets worn by their partner, Olivia Byrne, inspired Wonder Woman’s iconic bracelets.