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TIL Congress added the “Under God” phrase to the Pledge of Allegiance during the Cold War. This symbolized the resistance to communists, who were atheists.

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pYPdZ TIL Michael Schumacher donated $10 million to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It was the highest individual donation made in the disaster that killed more than 220,000 people. Schumacher's bodyguard Burkhard Cramer, and Cramer's two sons, were killed in the tsunami.
eeob TIL Video Games were initially called “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Devices” which were used by the Military.
EVXX TIL that Bob Jones University in South Carolina banned interracial dating until the year 2000
Y7Vjx TIL West Virginia Pepperoni Rolls Were Invented as Simple and Filling Food for Coal Miners.
kOb91 TIL Hard Drives are Drive "C:/" because originally PCs only had up to 2 floppy disk drives labelled A and B, some time later hard disks got added and became drive C.