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TIL more than 50 percent of people get away with murder.
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TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House. The New York Times made light of the outrage at the time calling the “imagined humiliation and degradation” of Ota Benga “absurd” because “pygmies are very low in the human scale”
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TIL the title sequence of Fight Club accurately traces a nerve impulse from the brain’s “fear center” to various affected tissues
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TIL that Mary Had A Little Lamb has an extended version which touchingly promotes kindness to animals
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TIL the first self-made black female millionaire of America was Madam C. J. Walker whose both parents were enslaved. After experiencing hair loss herself she created the "Walker system" which involved scalp preparation, lotions and iron combs. Her saleswomen were called "beauty culturalists".
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TIL that there's a cosmological model that says our observable universe is inside a black hole.