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TIL that In 2011, S.N.C.F., the French state railway company, apologized to victims of the Holocaust after lawmakers in the United States moved to block it from winning contracts there if the firm did not acknowledge its role in the shipping of Jews to death camps.

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gM0R7 TIL the lyrics to the music in the game Neir:Automata were invented by listening to songs in many languages and jumbling them up together and trying to imagine what they would sound like after 1000 years of drifting.
NkrE TIL that Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key were originally competing for the one black cast member slot on MADtv, but were both chosen due to their chemistry.
0NPy TIL In the past 6 years, a recent trend has broken out in Jamaica to bleach skin in order to make it lighter and a popular Jamaican rapper has even released his own line of skin bleaching products.
MRpB TIL the pilot of Gemini 3, John Young, was reprimanded for smuggling a corned beef sandwich onto the spacecraft.
6EoAm TIL that in 1504, Christopher Columbus used his foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to intimidate Jamaica natives into giving them their supply of food after they refused to, but fooled them saying his god is all-powerful and will make the moon disappear for he was displeased with their refusal.