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TIL A black cop infiltrated the KKK and became so well respected he was voted into a leadership position.

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9EgB TIL that by 2004 humanity produced more transistors than it did grains of rice, and by 2010 you could buy 125,000 transistors for the price of a grain of rice. A 16GB drive contains more transistors than the number of neurons in your brain.
Gmj4 TIL that salt is iodized because it is the simplest and most cost-effective measure available to battle iodine deficiency, whicih is the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities
QNMme TIL Encyclopaedia Britannica's best all-time year was 1990 when 100,000 sets were sold. Sales started falling when Microsoft released Encarta in 1993. In 2010, the final print run produced 12,000 sets.
nWPaG TIL that, using money earned from a 1961 biography of his brother Ernest, Leicester Hemingway created a micronation called New Atlantis on a 240 square foot raft off the coast of Jamaica, where he lived with his wife and young children. It lasted five years before it was destroyed in a storm.
NoYQ TIL that horror/supernatural writer Anne Rice’s birth name was Howard Allen Frances O'Brien. Her parents changed it at age six, it after she introduced herself in school to a nun as “Anne,” a name she found pretty, rather than give her birth name out of embarrassment.