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TIL the Catholic Church has accepted Darwinian evolution as compatible with Christianity since 1950.

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jNJlv TIL of Ralph Lazo, a 17-year old American student of Mexican and Irish descent, who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp, to provide moral support and share in his friends’ struggle; he would spend three years living there
Vglp TIL the Croatian fascist group, the Ustaše, butchered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Croats and Jews with primitive weapons, such as having little children impaled, cutting off women’s breasts, sawing off noses and ears and burned alive. Their crimes even horrified the Nazis.
XEWP8 TIL that after many tragedies in Frida Kahlo's life, such as a bus accident in which a metal rail entered her hip and exited through her vagina leaving her with pain her entire life, and having half her leg amputated, her last written words were "I joyfully await the exit and I hope never to return"
m1GlR TIL In the 1950’s, when General Electric opened Appliance Park in Louisville, KY, they persuaded lawmakers to bend the time zone boundary around the city so the factory would observe the same time as GE’s headquarters in Fairfield, CT.
LknBQ TIL that on September 23, 2009, former prime minister of Libya Muammar Gaddafi attempted to abolish the nation of Switzerland, by proposing a division of the country between France, Italy, and Germany.