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TIL Arthur Ashe published a three-volume book in 1988 titled A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete. He worked with researchers for nearly six years on the book and later stated that the book meant more to him than any of his tennis titles.

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gMRWy TIL there are more people living in slavery today than at any prior point in human history. One in 200 people is a slave.
W7E8L TIL in WW2, Japan interned 130,000 British, Dutch, and American civilians. 14,000 of them perished as a result
PD1L TIL Seth Rogen was considered too old to play the character he wrote based on himself in the movie “Superbad.” Jonah Hill was cast instead, despite being only a year and a half younger than Rogen.
nWkMr TIL that there was a child named Edmund Thomas Clint who was an Indian child prodigy that drew over 25,000 paintings during his life of 6 years and 11 months. One of his paintings was a drawing named "Temple Festival", which was made circa 1982.
l7P6N TIL that “smart” bullets, precision-guided firearm bullets that can alter course and accurately correct their path to a target, exist. They have been in development since as early as 2008 by DARPA and have been fire-tested successfully