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TIL Germans were persecuted/lynched in America during and prior to WWI

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W7XL8 TIL that former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder owned Six Flags, and he ended up sending it into bankruptcy
vPlER TIL of Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member, longest serving Secretary of Labor, and creator of Social Security
awpg9 TIL that Cards Against Humanity joked that they could buy an island with the money they donate to charity, so they bought an island in Maine to preserve wildlife. They named it ‘Hawaii 2’ because “it’s on the Maine land.”
4k4vN TIL that space junk/debris falls back to Earth on a daily basis, and not all re-entries are controlled. The CORDS Reentry Database documents objects and payloads that have reentered earth’s atmosphere since 2000.
e0KVL TIL A man called Miyamoto Musashi is considered the greatest swordsman who ever lived and even defeated legendary swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He arrived on the Island where they were due to fight, late, and with a wooden sword he'd carved out of an oar of the boat he used to get to the island.