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TIL A Japanese realtor "kidnapped" high school girls just to teach them about real estate and prepare them for the licensing exam

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aDZJ TIL that the first synthetic dye (Mauve) was discovered by an 18 year old chemist who was trying to synthesize treatments for Malaria.
5REB TIL that L. Frank Baum wrote not one, but thirteen sequels to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Because of letter sent by fans for more books, Baum wrote a new Oz book almost every year until his death.
woogo TIL: Mercia was one of the three notable Anglic kingdoms founded after as Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons. It was centred around the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.
wLwX7 TIL One in four cowboys was Black, despite the stories told in popular books and movies.
e0lK5 TIL that King George V’s physician gave the dying king a lethal dosage of morphine and cocaine to hasten his death so that it could be announced in the morning edition of The Times rather than “less appropriate evening journals.”