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TIL of Detroit’s Eight-mile wall built in 1941 to separate separate black & white communities. It still stands to this day.

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9Bb6 TIL the Super Bowl has required national anthem vocals to be pre-recorded since 1993 when Garth Brooks declined to pre-record and then refused to sing live until a dispute over debuting a music video during the game could be settled, resulting in a delayed kickoff.
OMya TIL that a truckload of bananas can trip nuclear weapon scanners because of the slight radiation each banana gives off from their potassium isotopes
RLLj TIL police departments can and will refuse to hire someone because their IQ is too high.
Yp7A TIL that the severe decrease in crime rates in the 1990s is often attributed in part to the increase in abortions after Roe v Wade was passed in 1973.
Axd4 TIl that Dwight D. Eisenhower was named the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe despite never having experienced actual combat himself