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TIL the biggest maritime evacuation in history was not Dunkirk, but the 9/11 boatlifts. Boats evacuated almost half a million from Manhattan island within nine hours following the September 11th attacks.

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OOO7 TIL that in the 1930s, to control prices, govt placed caps on how much a farmer could produce, claiming that a farmer growing more than that cap, even just to feed his family, was “interstate commerce” because NOT having to buy grain to feed his family would affect prices - the Supreme Court agreed!
en8k TIL That Sesame Street South Africa has a Muppet who is HIV+ in order to teach kids the dangers and how to cope with the lost of family members to the STD
J5G8 TIL OJ Simpson’s father was a well known drag queen in the San Francisco area
GYE5N TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century.
jN1M TIL there is a list with hundreds of facts that could make the front page of r/todayilearned.