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TIL in 1990, Mr. Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating his voice in prerecorded messages. These messages said “AIDS was divine retribution” and included radio skits simulating lynchings of black children on a playground. The tapes were circulated among elementary and middle school children.

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OZ6 TIL Hitler so admired the Greek resistance to the invading German army in WW2 that he ordered the release of all Greek POWs for “their gallant bearing”.
WkMko TIL Charles Darwin & his wife were first cousins. They had 10 kids, 7 making it to adulthood. Worried that his marriage had something to do with the deaths, he began to experiment with plants. He learned that with any kind of breeding, it's better to cross-breed than to keep relatives together.
mxEVE TIL Napoleon's great-nephew Charles founded the FBI
d8laE TIL that after a heart transplant you'll have a resting pulse of around 90 bpm since the vagus nerve that usually regulates heart rate is cut during the transplant. The heart will still beat faster during exercise due to its internal regulatory mechanism, but the new "idle" will be around 90 bpm.
ADKLn TIL Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones fouhgt his last naval battles in the area of present-day Ukraine