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TIL Ip Man was Bruce Lee's Teacher.

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LkADd TIL Eşref Armağan is a naturally visually impaired Turkish man and was able to successfully portray models of objects he had not seen throughout his life by touching them with his fingertips. He is the first blind man who drew perspective art.
5Y7YR TIL that "on January 13, 1958, Klansmen burned a cross on the lawn of a Lumbee American Indian woman in the town of St. Pauls, North Carolina as "a warning" because she was dating a white man." At their next rally, a group of 500 armed Lumbee encircled the klansmen and opened fire.
BrDmk TIL that a Congolese plane crashed after the crocodile it carried onboard escaped, causing the passengers to rush to front of the plane and thus losing the balance.
965D TIL Harriet Tubman never lost a slave in 19 trips on the Underground Railroad. One of her secrets for not getting caught was drugging kids with opium to keep them from crying.
GAGbE TIL that in the 1600s, a religious sect called Muggletonians didn't believe in witches was founded.