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TIL 'CQD' was the international distress symbol before 'SOS'

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Zamp TIL if North Korea launched the largest nuclear warhead they have detonated in Times Square it would not even reach Central park.
4k8w6 TIL African-Americans enjoyed equal rights in the aftermath of the Civil War. It was a series of policies and Supreme Court decisions that disenfranchised the black community and stripped them gradually over the decades over their newfound freedoms. In 1873 there was even a Black Governor of LA.
6951w TIL of Triboulet: a Royal jester for King Francis of France who was sentenced to death for mocking the King and Queen. King Francis allowed him to choose his method of death, to which Triboulet responded “… I ask to die from old age.” He was spared and instead banished.
8eN8Z TIl that as part of an agreement with the cast of StarShip Troopers in order to get them to film the infamous coed shower scene, director Paul Verhoeven had to direct it while also being completely naked
0dyOR TIL that a Fiddle is the same as a Violin