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TIL the world’s longest burning fire is 6000 years old

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VWXD TIL that a Black, Gay, Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin who educated MLK in Gandhian principles, made a famous speech in 1986 titled “The New Niggers Are Gay” emphasizing that gay people are most vulnerable social group and the new barometer for social change
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loLvB TIL that there is no French word for 'whiskey'
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