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TIL that a man scammed a Nigerian prince scammer into joining a fake religion and sending him money, scamming the scammer

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4ad5 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the 1968 Baltimore riots: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
woA7M TIL around 2500 BC, a 140 foot long ship was buried in pieces in a pit near the Great Pyramid. It was found in 1954 and the 1,224 fragments were assembled recently. Khufu’s Solar Boat "sailed" again in 2021 when it was moved by a special vehicle to the Grand Egyptian Museum.
XEeAP TIL that 1/3 of JFK's secret service staff were hungover on the day of his assassination.
O0rX TIL In the early 1960s, the US military dispersed 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit around the Earth, in a failed attempt at creating an artificial ionosphere to improve radio communication. Many of the needles are still up there today.
D1d9Y TIL Greco-Buddhism, an early synthesis of Western and Eastern ideals, heavily influenced Christianity with ideals such as: respect for life, respect for the weak, rejection of violence, pardon to sinners, tolerance.