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TIL there's a train station in Paris named after Rosa Parks

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XEk56 TIL It's possible for cats to be allergic to humans!
VMBm4 TIL that when James Robert Ringrose, one of FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was arrested in 1966, he presented the FBI agents with a "Get out of jail free" card from Monopoly
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