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ADEM7 TIL Charley Pride couldn’t make the majors in baseball, so he did something even more improbable—he became the first black superstar in country music.
W7ejL TIL About Silas Soule, a Little-Known Union Officer and Abolitionist Who Died Aged 26 for Testifying About the Massacre at Sand Creek
nWjlr TIL that after his defeat by Caesar at the Battle of Thapsus, Cato the Younger read Plato’s Phaedo and stabbed himself in the stomach, he was found alive and stitched up but when he awoke he ripped his stitches and disemboweled himself
8BeK TIL That the Australian consitution is written to allow New Zealand to become a state at any time
ANae4 TIL If it wasn't for the fact that ice is less dense than water, and therefore floats, life on Earth would not exist.