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TIL Don Cheadle's ancestors, and many other African American slaves, were not freed when slavery ended in the US because they were owned by Native Americans

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9VnD TIL The FBI had to investigate the song “Louie Louie” after a parent complained that the unintelligible lyrics were hiding obscenities. After a two-year investigation they were unable to understand the lyrics and also missed the drummer yelling “fuck” at the 54th second.
8Rn4 TIL after first implementing cloud computing technology, Amazon employed “two-pizza teams” to maintain and upgrade the hardware, aka a team small enough to be fed with only 2 pizzas.
olP7 TIL: Later in his life, Voltaire developed the habit of living near borders so he could more easily escape the authorities if his writings angered them
j98j TIL a scientist cracked his knuckles on one hand for 60 years to prove it did not cause Arthritis. He got an Ig Nobel prize for the discovery
rRpnW TIL that almost nothing is known of the social organization or religious beliefs of the people who erected tens of thousands of menhirs (large upright stones) across Europe, Asia and Africa. There is not even any trace of these people's language.