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TIL Einstein once taught physics at a Historically Black College/University in Pennsylvania because he was passionately anti-racist

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wLae7 TIL the Africa Union plans to have a single, continent-wide currency. The currency is likely going to be called afro or afriq.
Ewap TIL of Kishan Shrikanth, who’s listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest person to direct a professional feature film, for directing his first film at age 10
X8Dr TIL Eric Carle, the American-born illustrator and writer of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, moved to Germany as a kid in the 1930s, and was conscripted to dig trenches for the German army when he was 15 years old. Now 87 years old, he is one of the youngest surviving WWII veterans.
loPwB TIL that if you are sentenced to death in Japan, once your final appeal is exhausted you execution date is kept secret until the morning it happens.
9wDbB TIL of paper towns and trap streets, a technique where mapmakers and publishers of encyclopedias and dictionaries hide fake data within real information in order to determine if someone has plagiarized their work