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TIL the African American exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exhibition, curated by W.E.B. DuBois & Thomas J. Calloway, featured 200 books by African Americans, collected by Daniel Murray. Murray's list was the Library of Congress' first bibliography of African American literature.. More in the comments....

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bY8p TIL Gary Cohn, a dyslexic, bluffed his way into a finance job and became the COO of Goldman Sachs
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VMGJQ TIL of the Interregnum period in Transjordan in 1920 where, for about a year, the region had no ruler or occupying power. Locals even wrote letters to nearby Sharif Hussein to send "one of his sons" to rule it.
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