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TIL that Tulsa OK used have a “Black Wall Street” that was once the most economically prosperous black community in America. The community’s wealth was greater than that of surrounding white neighborhoods and was destroyed by envious whites on June 1, 1921 in just 12 hours during a race riot.

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Wk7B4 TIL: During Prohibition, Grape bricks/juice came with warnings on how "not" to make wine so people could make their own wine.

woy5W TIL that in August 1996 around 80 members of the film crew for the movie Titanic, including Director James Cameron, ate lobster chowder on set that was spiked with the drug PCP. A suspect was never identified and the case was later closed in February 1999.

DQXKp TIL there is a satirical political party in Germany called “Die Partie” that has pledged to build a wall around Switzerland and to rebuild the Berlin Wall. They received 900,000 votes in the 2019 EU elections

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