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TIL Eric Clapton grew up thinking his mother was his sister, his grandmother was his mother, and his step-grandfather was his father

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8JAK TIL in 1943, the LAPD allowed white servicemen on break from war to beat, strip, and urinate on Latino boys aged from as young as 11 in order to let out their frustrations at the “hoodlum” culture cultivating in LA.
epBvD TIL that you are able to hear people talking miles away, given the right weather conditions.
VMo14 TIL HSBC Bank was caught helping Mexican drug cartels launder millions of dollars. No one was jailed.
DQdLp TIL that Canada has a large desert area, resembling the Sahara, with massive dunes. It borders Lake Athabasca and is surrounded in boreal forest.
grXyL TIL Japan successfully floated balloon Bombs into the US during WW2, killing 6 people in Oregon "the war's only fatalities in the continental U.S". But, the US Government did such an effective job of covering it up, Japan thought the attack was a failure.