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TIL Sophie Walton, former slave girl and house servant to the Holiday family, taught a young Doc Holiday how to manipulate cards.

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lZ4K TIL English farmer Angus Wielkopolski discovered that goats produce more milk listening to Mariah Carrey’s all I want for Christmas tune than any other song. They found that the goats produced up to half a pint more when Carey’s famous Christmas track was played.
oRvGY TIL - in 1995, Renault installed their 800+HP, V-10 Formula 1 engine into their Espace minivan, sold in Europe. They had F1 champ Alain Prost test drive it around a race track.
W7RZX TIL: Maya Angelou directed one movie - 'Down in the Delta' - a well received film released in 1988
wopw1 TIL there were plans to raise the Titanic by using liquid nitrogen to turn it into an iceberg. Alternate plans included filling it with vaseline or ping pong balls. None came to fruition.
ddr9 TIL that Mark Twain published two dime novels, Tom Sawyer - Detective, and Tom Sawyer Abroad, to cash in on the popularity of pulp fiction and Jules Verne-style science fiction, some two decades after the title character’s debut