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TIL Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day

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A4x4 TIL: Edgar Allen Poe’s character Richard Parker who is eaten in a shipwreck in his 1838 book. In 1884 an English ship sinks and the name of the boy who is eaten is Richard Parker.
EvQW TIL there is evidence that once infected with a flu, the virus influences humans to be more social and come into contact with large groups of people.
5Voop TIL that Yoko Ono, the wife of musician John Lennon, is the great-granddaughter of Yasuda Zenjiro, the founder of the Yasuda Zaibatsu that got dissolved at the end of World War II.
JNX8 TIL that Mars has only 10% the mass of the Earth.
5Nkk TIL that a single Finnish man hid in the Finland forests during WW2 and killed over 500 Soviets in less than 100 days. He was nicknamed “White Death” by the Soviets and they focused missions entirely on him.