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TIL James Cromwell (the farmer from Babe) was once in a group dedicated to defending members of The Black Panthers

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kOOm TIL that approximately 20,000 cancer cases per year could be prevented by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption by one serving each per day.
4kleJ TIL In 1960, about 15 years after the atomic bombings, Oppenheimer embarked on a lecture tour across Japan, stopping in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka
jNOVM TIL of the Open-Fields Doctrine where any private land outside a property owner's curtilage (the dwelling and its immediate vicinity) can be subject to a warrant-less search under the 4th amendment.
ANEax TIL that the descendants of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who is credited as the founding father of Pakistan, have remained in India after the partition of British colonial India into India and Pakistan in 1947, after his only child, Dina Wadia's decision to stay back in India for her marital life.
ANZew TIL pollen research from the Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea show a devastating drought from 1250 to 1100 BCE caused the collapse of civilization in the Late Bronze Age.