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TIL The Beatles refused to play to a segregated audience as stipulated in their contract in 1965

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X0o5X TIL A 2 billion yen run on a Japanese bank in 1973 was traced back to a casual remark about the danger of working in a bank during a conversation between three female high school students.
rDlx TIL that when the Champawat Tigress, a Bengal tiger responsible for the deaths of over 436 people was killed, it was discovered that it’s canine teeth were broken. This had prevented it from hunting it’s natural prey.
4pG5 TIL After the Titanic disaster, White Star Line equipped her identical sister ship, Olympic, with extra second-hand collapsible lifeboats, many of which were unseaworthy. Many of the ships crew went on strike in protest, so White Star Line prosecuted them with Mutiny, and hired an inexperience crew
D1evD TIL to combat the spread of smallpox during the Civil War, soldiers would find someone with cowpox, cut open their pustules, and infect themselves with it. The less harmful cowpox made them immune to smallpox, but they sometimes confused cowpox with syphilis and gave themselves an STD instead.
v19MB TIL about the story of Kakudmi, Who travelled into the cosmos in search of a groom for his daughter. When he came back to earth he experienced time dilation and generations had passed in his short trip around the universe.