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TIL All new FBI agents are required to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum

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aweWA TIL that the FIRST individual in human history to denounce racism in a documented account was the Prophet Muhammad of Islam.
DQx7J TIL about the Varangian Guard. It was an elite military unit composed of Vikings and some Anglo-Saxons who were recruited to serve as the personal bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors. The Byzantines exclusively hired foreigners as they lacked any political allegiance.
4kwYN TIL after a torpedo blew off 150 feet of the USS New Orleans' bow in 1942, the crew built a replacement from coconut logs and sailed her backwards 1,000 miles to Australia. The severed bow was found on the seafloor 83 years later.
GAwZj TIL When the Wii U failed miserably, the Nintendo CEO halved his own salary for half a year, instead of laying off his employees.
6Eyn8 TIL The Officers That Made the Watergate Arrests Were Dressed as Hippies Because They Had Just Been Undercover to Find Drug Dealers