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TIL the US Army staged a fake war in 1940-41 to test military tactics and doctrine

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xpA7 TIL Billy Joel gives away all of his front row tickets to random people in the cheap seats so that the front row isn’t always just wealthy people
ZmPD TIL a Futurama fan spent 14 months drawing all the characters and alternate versions of the main characters from the show for one image. It’s about 1,300 individual figures.
W7RR8 TIL 40% of white medical trainees believed black people having thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings in a 2016 survey
b6elZ TIL of the Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo, a hereditary title of Spanish nobility held by a line of descendants of Moctezuma II. Since 1766, the title has been attached to a place of peerage, considered to be the highest honor, held currently by Juan José Marcilla de Teruel-Moctezuma y Valcárcel.
Xl9R TIL of The Hole: a facility operated by the Church of Scientology in California. The Tampa Bay Times described it as “a place of confinement and humiliation where Scientology’s management culture…grew extreme.” It has been described by ex-members comparable to that of a North Korean death camp.