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TIL that the 1946 ‘Adventures of Superman’ radio show revealed the 'secret’ codes and rituals of the KKK, making it a laughingstock and drying up Klan recruitment almost overnight

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adRo TIL “Max Heiliger” was a fictional name created by the Nazis and used to establish bank accounts to launder valuables stolen from those killed in the concentration and extermination camps. Using the name “Heiliger” was a cynical Nazi joke, since the word means saint, from the word heilig (holy).
9w40M TIL Since 2011, Chinese astronauts are officially banned from visiting the International Space Station
yQMVX TIL Visitors are not allowed to scatter ashes of the loved ones at Disney World or Disneyland. This seems to be a real problem particularly around the Haunted Mansion attraction.
NoAM TIL that a $350m drillship built in the early ‘70s by US billionaire, Howard Hughes, to collect 'mineral riches’ from the ocean floor was actually a cover for the CIA to be used to lift a lost Soviet submarine, loaded with nuclear missiles, up from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 3 miles deep
nWjOY TIL that Earth is the only known place in our solar system where fire occurs and no known exoplanets have oxygen enough to allow fire.