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TIL Roger Ebert dated Oprah

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OnXa TIL that Monica Lewinsky performed oral sex on Bill Clinton while he was still talking on the phone with a member of Congress
GYQ6N TIL that meowing isnt a natural part of cat language. It is developed almost exclusively to communicate with humans.
BgwQb TIL that on average, 1,300 trains derail every year in the US, with a peak of 9,400 derailments in 1978.
MoZV TIL 10-18 million Africans were taken by Arab slavers. This is more than the 12 million Africans shipped in the Atlantic slave trade, and 16-30 times more than the 600,000 slaves imported to America since 1620, which is less than the more than 1 million whites enslaved by Ottoman vassals.
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