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TIL America is still declared a “State of Emergency”
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TIL Leo Marks, WWII cryptographer, discovered that Dutch intelligence was compromised when coded messages came through with zero typos or grammar errors. The grammar Nazis were, in fact, actual Nazis.
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TIL that a central bank digital currency (cbdc) is not a cryptocurrency because cbdc's are controlled by a central bank while cryptocurrencies are decentralized.
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TIL that "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber was one of John F. Kennedy's favorite pieces of music. The Monday after his death, Jackie Kennedy arranged a performance of the piece by the National Symphony Orchestra. They played it to an empty hall.
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TIL journalist Ida B. Wells boldly wrote about the evils of lynching in 1892 that "a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give."
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TIL Robert Downey Jr's father exposed him to drugs when he was six years old and he got addicted to them by the age of eight.