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TIL that Kwanzaa was created in 1966 as a way to unify Black communities after the Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles

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6eKJ TIL Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the wife of the creator of Star Trek, played the nurse on then original series, played Deanna Troi’s mother on TNG, voiced all the computer on Star Trek, and her body is being launched into space in 2014.
nWeWr TIL that in 1965, artist Andy Warhol made an 8-hour, B&W silent film called “Empire” that consisted of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building. It had no characters or narrative, and Warhol stated that the purpose of the film was “to see time go by.”
d8LMK TIL: Blood types evolved over time with A being the oldest in pre-humans and with B, O, and AB evolving starting about 5 million years ago.
QLGL TIL: One or more members of a firing squad may be issued a weapon containing a blank cartridge. This is called the “conscience round” and allows each member to believe that they did not personally fire the fatal shot.
pMG8 TIL- In 1935 Congress “declared war on soil erosion and enlisted kudzu as a primary weapon. More than 70 million kudzu seedlings were grown in nurseries by the newly created Soil Conservation Service.”