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TIL the last surviving former slave in the US, Peter Mills died in 1972, aged 110 after being involved in a pedestrian accident

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Oovvg TIL Chen Si, a Chinese man, has spent every weekend of the past 13 years patrolling the most notorious suicide spot in China, helping prevent suicides. He has saved well over 300 people.
M7RRa TIL Real skeletons were used in the making of the original "Poltergeist" film (1982)
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