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TIL The Blind Boys of Alabama is an American gospel group started in 1939 that is still active today.

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x7Mo TIL that there was a proposed initiative to divide California into six different states. If passed, it would have created a new richest state and a new poorest state, both being adjacent to one another.
AD51o TIL about the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a motley collection of barges and gunboats assembled to defend Chesapeake Bay from the British Royal Navy. The ships were scuttled to prevent capture, and the sailors brought the cannons ashore to defend Washington D.C. in the Battle of Bladensburg.
A47x TIL that gaslighting was used as early as WWII by Nazi Germany as one of the Zersetzung psychological manipulation warfare techniques to destroy and drive political opponents to psychosis and suicide.
vdVL TIL: Michael Jackson wanted to build a 50 foot robot of himself to roam the Nevada desert.
pw5O TIL in the 1860s, British policemen had the right to legally examine almost any woman’s private parts