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TIL John F Kennedy revoked Sammy Davis Jr's inauguration invite due to his planned marriage to white actress May Britt

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gZk7 TIL that former NSA Intelligence Official William Binney blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance activities as early as 2002, and was raided by the FBI in July 2007 in suspicion of his role in a New York Times Expose on warrant-less wiretapping.
lkmK TIL that the word “cat” is so old that it can be traced all the way to the Late Egyptian “čaute”.
Oa1L TIL The last surviving ship of the White Star Line (who built the Titanic in 1908) appeared in France in 2012 and is still operable today (102 years old).
rgk1 TIL the Vietnam War is known in Vietnam as the American War
KOkVE TIL in the song "9 to 5," Dolly Parton created the typewriter sound effect by tapping her acrylic fingernails against one another.