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TIL woolly mammoths were still alive while the Great Pyramids were being built.

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VnJk TIL that the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, famous for the construction and unveiling of the Eiffel Tower, had a “Negro Zoo” with 400 black people in cages as one of the attractions.
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