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TIL that censors in Tsarist Russia did not censor Das Kapital upon its publication because they believed that "very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it."

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NJ8P TIL that The Lone Ranger was most likely based on real life U.S. Deputy Marshall Bass Reeves - the first Black U.S. Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi
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