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TIL that Hugh Thompson Jr. ordered his own crew to fire upon friendly soldiers if they wouldn’t stop shooting civilians in the My Lai Massacre.

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Q6W9 TIL a San Francisco man saved a threatened butterfly species by replanting rare flora in his backyard, transporting caterpillars to his local botanical garden, where they began to make a comeback
0dgWy TIL LBJ reportedly used the N-word crudely and repeatedly in private in several occasions. Although historians note he only acted this way when negotiating with Dixiecrats a Dixiecans for his Civil Rights Act.
890K TIL the longest film ever made (Modern Times Forever, 2011) has a duration of 240 hours or 10 days, and shows centuries of decay, compressed into the span of the film.
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