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TIL About Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe risking his career and the lives of his family.

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m1Pxv TIL in 1964, the FBI attempted to blackmail MLK Jr and urged him to commit suicide in an attempt to undermine the civil rights movement
R7dv1 TIL of 'Friendship Albums', a tradition among African-American women in the early 1800s from the middle/upper class. Empty books were passed around their circle and filled with philosophical, political or creative writing and art. Extremely rare antiques, only 5 such albums are known to exist today.
v1rRj TIL that for 18 months, a village in Wales was mystified as to why their broadband internet crashed at 7am every morning, until engineers "picked up a large burst of electrical interference" springing from one dude turning on his very old TV.
GY5gg TIL Despite being only 13 percent of the population, African Americans make up nearly half (49 percent) of all wrongful convictions.
nNM9 TIL the person who constantly bullied me and ruined my elementary school life has written a book about bullying.