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TIL More than 3 Million people were killed during the 1943 Bengal famine in India and Churchill's policies were to blame for this

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GAkoN TIL: Algeria was once the #1 export of wine, pre-dating Roman rule and accounted for nearly two-thirds of international trade, until the mid 20th century.
kOW0W TIL Chief Justice Fred Wilson, who presided the Brown v Board of Education trial initially, was holding the opinion that the Plessy v Ferguson verdict should stand. He died in September 1953 and replaced by Earl Warren. Warren made the Racial Segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
jNlMR TIL Mark Twain made a substantial amount of money throughout his career but lost most of it. He lost the equivalent of $9,000,000 on a typesetting machine investment, his publishing company failed after selling only 200 copies of one of his books, & he was forced to sell his house in Connecticut.
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