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TIL that the Confederate Flag was popularized in opposition of the Civil Rights movements of the 1950s by the political part Dixiecrats

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x67D TIL The daughter of Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s second in command(and architect of the holocaust) is still alive and is active in Nazi ideology today.
rRKLx TIL the Burke & Wills expedition of 1860, Australia’s own Lewis & Clarke. Burke, Wills and 17 others set off to cross Australia South-North, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, a 3250km journey one way. Both men died. Only one, an Irish soldier named John King completed the journey back.
wL8LP TIL of cryptomnesia - when you forget something and then remember it as if it's an original thought. This can cause unintentional plagiarism or convince you that you've got a brilliant new idea, only to be disappointed when it's already been done.
QJrEd TIL that the movies E.T. the Extra-terrestrial and Poltergeist were both inspired by an unproduced sci-fi horror film conceived by Steven Spielberg called Night Skies.
kOo8e TIL In 1884 the mining town of Animas Forks, CO, experienced a 23 day blizzard that buried the town under 25 feet of snow. The townspeople dug tunnels from home to home to get by.