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yVllX TIL about "The Golden Evening", a night in July 189 when an American magazine editor JM Stoddart had dinner with Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde and contracted stories from each. Doyle wrote "The Sign Of Four" and Wilde wrote "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" as a result. Both now classics.
bGn9 TIL white people were also sold into slavery in the ante-Bellum South