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TIL a guy got rich by selling old farmer’s clothes to hipsters and yuppies

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eDM4 TIL the term “jaywalking” was coined by the auto industry in the 1920s in an effort to “redefine streets as places where pedestrians do not belong”
4XWxR TIL of Šćepan Mali, who ascended to the throne of the principality of Montenegro by pretending to be the dead Russian Tsar Peter III. The actual ruler was sidelined while Šćepan was proclaimed the Tsar of Montenegro. Despite proving to be a very capable ruler, he was assassinated 5.5 years later.
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xpDb TIL Mr. Roger’s parents adopted an African American teenager named George. Rogers came to consider George his older brother, and George later became an instructor for the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II– and also taught Rogers how to fly.
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