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TIL of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the only known white woman to be murdered working for the Civil Rights movement.

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ARE7 TIL that following her coronation in 1838, 18 year old Queen Victoria returned home to Buckingham Palace and raced upstairs to give her favorite spaniel, Dash, his usual bath.
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