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TIL that in 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.

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oB4OL TIL: in the late 1960s, US plane hijacking had become so commonplace, specifically requests to be down to Cuba, but the industry so resistant to security changes, that a suggestion was seriously proposed to build a fake Havana airport in southern Florida to fool the hijackers into capitulation
65EJ TIL - Kentucky Homeland Security thinks God is Vital to State Security and you can be fined and put in jail for up to 12 months if you do not acknowledge that God protects us from terrorism
KY67E TIL about one in every 220 Americans was addicted to opioids in the 1890s, mainly from patent medicines, and one of the most popular treatments for addiction was injections of 'bichloride of gold', which sounded impressive but had no medical effects
PY04g TIL (Matthew 6:6) Jesus told not to stand on street corners and in churches and pray, because only hypocrites do that to get attention.
1bxr TIL Matt Groening’s parents were Homer and Margaret Groening.