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TIL that when President Roosevelt visited The Pentagon in 1945 before its dedication he ordered them to remove the whites only signes and therefore making The Pentagon the only building in Virginia were segregation laws were not enforced until 1965.

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aeLL TIL that Earth is only “marginally” habitable. Some of the Earth-like might potentially be far more hospitable for life than Earth is.
R70K4 TIL the USSR and China each lost about 20-25 million citizens during WW2. The rest of the world lost 25-30 million lives combined.
l15B TIL we could fit the entire human race in New Zealand if we lived as dense as Manhattan
P179w TIL India has the 3rd largest Muslim population, nearly as large (86%) as that of Pakistan, and more than twice the Muslim population of Iran.
daej TIL Dallas / Forth Worth Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan.