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TIL that a black musician named Daryl Davis convinced 200 Klansmen to leave the KKK.

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j6EX TIL that in 2003, a glitch was found in Pokemon R/B/Y which allows you to catch Mew (or even the other starters)
4XmNX TIL in 1781, 142 slaves were thrown overboard from a slave ship. The crew claimed they were low on drinking water and had killed the slaves to save it-this claim was disputed. The slaves had been insured. The case brought major attention to abolition.
rDyy TIL about the Integral Fast Reactor, a nuclear reactor that is fully sealed and will not require refueling until the end of plant life. It is also meltdown-proof, and can reuse its fuel many times by reprocessing fuel using robotic arms sealed with the reactor. None exist today because of politics.
b6yQa TIL that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns an enormous collection of fossils as a kind of byproduct of the Corps’s actual, more logistical purpose: flood control.
8arp8 TIL on average over 100 Americans are killed with guns every day and that it's the leading cause of death for kids and teens.