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TIL that black nationalist Marcus Garvey created a shipping line called the Black Star Line with the goal returning African-Americans to Africa

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M7GEb TIL that Canada’s coastline (202,080 km) which is the world’s longest is at least 3.5 times the length of Indonesia’s (54,716 km)
QJELd TIL that Shakespeare’s Birthplace was nearly sold in 1846 to an American businessman who wanted to demolish and move the house to America. It was saved by a consortium that included Charles Dickens.
VMEa0 TIL During the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy said: “Why does he put these in there, though? … It’s just as if we suddenly began to put a major number of MRBMs in Turkey. Now that’d be goddamned dangerous, I would think.” His advisor immediately pointed out: “Well we did it, Mr. President.”
mxBeR TIL Andrew Thielen's info was fraudulently sold to debt collectors. Their conduct enraged him to the point of spending a years-long crusade to find the source that committed this fraud. Using the same intimidating tactics collectors tried to use on him, he worked his way to the man responsible.
OXnL TIL Canada bought a license to produce a fighter the US no longer wanted, and it ended up being so successful as a ground attack aircraft that nobody was able to catch one during more than 20 years of NATO exercises. They won first or second place in nearly every exercise they participated in.