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TIL A man who wanted to create a whites-only town in North Dakota was found to be of African descent

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kJ7R7 TIL that Wells Fargo's stagecoach is not an advertising gimmick. It began in 1852 as both a bank and shipping company for the new US state of California. Wells Fargo owned stagecoach lines, carried mail, and operated part of the Pony Express.
pYeQb TIL about the American Fotoplayer, which was a player piano that combined a piano and an organ plus percussion instruments used to add music and sound effects to silent movies. I also learned that the "circus song" is actually a military march called Entry of the Gladiators
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