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TIL the author of The Three Musketeers & The Count of Monte Cristo was black

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k9vW TIL that Jimmy McMillan, the guy from the “Rent Is Too Damn High” meme, is a karate expert, and Vietnam War veteran, as well as a former postal worker, stripper, and private investigator.
b0AZ TIL Ibn Al-Haytham, a Muslim physicist and scientist that lived during the Golden Age of Islam, is credited with the creation of the scientific method that has became the basis of Western science today.
WgWA TIL that an asthmatic boy died in a severe asthma attack because the school forbid asthma inhalers; while the boy was dying, the inhalers sat in a safe at the principal’s office.
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