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TIL infamous cult leader Jim Jones was one of the first people in Indiana to have a desegregated congregation which also aided in desegregating local businesses and restaurants through peaceful protests. Throughout his early life he was very passionate about civil rights.

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g4R4 TIL during a 2014 concert, Kanye West halted the performance of “Good Life,” due to not the entire audience standing. The person he signaled out, was in a wheelchair
5jnr TIL Richard Nixon possessed 3,700 hours of taped conversations while he was in the White House. Very few people have listened to more than a few hours of them. The tapes “go a long way toward showing Nixon’s underappreciated geopolitical genius and how he became the victim of his own emotionalism.”
QNaMa TIL: That the Beijing Weather Modification Office were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics were free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.
1aO5W TIL about Carl Schurz, at first a soldier in the German revolution of '48, who busted out his friend from a prison in Berlin, fled on a boat to Edinburg, emigrated to the US, became a Union General in the Civil War, then US Senator, and later secretary of the interior. Mark Twain wrote his obituary.
gMJQb TIL a fascinating group of people called the "Wandervogel" rebelled against Authoritarianism in germany until the nazis forced them to disband, while borrowing some of their ideas about nationalism and nature