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TIL about Life After Hate, an organization that helps people break free from violent extremism

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9wWrm TIL: National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is the oldest civil rights organization in the country. It was found in 1880 and is older than NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
YGPr TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, asked for an autopsy to be done after his death to determine what made him kill. The autopsy found a tumor pressing on his amygdala, possibly influencing his actions.
OokpY TIL that 'normalcy' was purely a mathematical term describing 'the condition of being at right angles' before US President Warren G Harding incorrectly used it in his 1920 campaign slogan 'Return to Normalcy'. Since then it has become a substitute for 'normality', mainly used in the United States.
4aj5 TIL In 1987, a guy bought a lifetime unlimited first class American Airlines ticket for $250,000. He flew over 10,000 flights costing the company $21,000,000. They terminated his ticket in 2008.
0wOjM TIL of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plan to collapse the British economy by airdropping fake bank notes over England. The program produced up to 300 million Pounds, including £100,000 notes.