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TIL that under apartheid the Taiwanese, Koreans, and Japanese were classified as "honorary whites" while the Chinese were classified as "colored"

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nebL7 TIL televangelist Pat Robertson had extensive business with West African warlord Charles Taylor, who "has been found responsible for aiding and abetting as well as planning some of the most heinous and brutal crimes in recorded human history" and sentenced to 50 years for crimes against humanity.
D1gkY TIL that in 1981 the Pentagon spent $6 million trying to determine whether or not burning a photograph of a Soviet missile would destroy the actual missile
6EB5w TIL: There was a year where the New England states did not have a summer: 1816. Frost and cold snaps throughout the summer months killed crops and made life miserable.
9wdgG TIL Saudi Culture Ministry bought a Leonardo Da Vinci painting for a world-record $450m at an auction in New York. Later, scientific evidence suggested that Da Vinci only made a contribution to the painting, and experts consider that the painting was more likely to have been the work of his studio
4epN TIL James Cameron altered the stars in the night sky of the raft scene in Titanic 3D after Neil DeGrasse Tyson sent him a “snarky email” pointing out that the star field would have been different in 1912.