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TIL - Kevin Feige was a production assistant on the original X Men film

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JYBLm TIL Abraham Lincoln replied to a critic questioning emancipation by writing: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that"
oRde8 TIL About the African Dodger Game. In the 1920s people would throw baseballs at black people's heads at carnivals, causing great injuries and even death
neZJ9 TIL about the ‘Stoned Ape’ theory the idea that ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms was the "evolutionary catalyst" from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang.
W70ML TIL Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school.
1dw8 TIL in 2012 a statue of Jesus started dripping water. People declared it holy and started drinking it. A man proved it was bad plumbing and was called a blasphemer. He had to flee to Finland.