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TIL the Confederate Battle Flag was first flown above the South Carolina State House in 1962 in defiance of the Civil Rights Movement

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GADOg TIL Jimmy Carter met his future wife, Rosalynn, three days after she was born, when Lillian Carter brought her 3 year old son to meet a newborn she helped deliver. They started dating 18 years later, in 1945.
5Y9mn TIL that the World Chess Federation rearranges tournament matchups so that Iranians never have to play Israelis, because Iran does not recognize the existence of Israel
lwo1 TIL that portions of Anne Frank’s diary were censored because she described her clitoris
MebKK TIL in Japan, Nintendo continued to produce the Famicom (known as the NES in North America) until 2003, with technical support continuing for four years after that, citing a scarcity of parts as its discontinuation of it
kOME4 TIL prior to the work of Harvey Nininger (1887-1986) experts thought searching for meteorites was a waste of time. Starting in 1923, he was credited with half of all meteorite discoveries on earth by 1941.