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TIL in 1958, only 4 percent of Americans supported marriage between “whites and non-whites.”

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MemKm TIL that Tibet is full of oil and gas resources.
GYXY4 TIL that Lance Armstrong was only caught after an insurance company that sponsored him realized they could get millions of dollars in bonus money back if Armstrong was stripped of his titles.
gMD7L TIL having expulsed Mexican migrant workers in 1965, a program was created to replace the missing labor with American youth. 3300 teenagers ended up picking crops as a summer job. The conditions were so bad that within 2 weeks 200 had quit and many held strikes. The program was never tried again
54oB TIL 1100 hostages were taken during the Belsan school hostage crisis. After three days of standoff, Russian security forces stormed the building with the use of tanks, incendiary rockets and other heavy weapons. 330 hostages were killed, including 186 children.
m1kRY TIL in 1980, following a 1978 referendum, Switzerland was Europe's "time island" by delaying Daylight Saving Time until 1981, resulting in a unique six-month period where it lagged an hour behind its neighbors, excluding Liechtenstein, until the Federal Council mandated alignment.