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TIL That Captain Underpants has twice topped the list of banned books in America

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NXV6P TIL a sultan of Morocco, Isma‘il ibn Sharif, owned a private army called "The Black Guard" comprised of West African and Haratin slave-soldiers. Considered more loyal than the locals because of their lack of tribal affiliation, Isma‘il's black soldiers formed the bulk of his army, numbering at 150k.
R5rZa TIL that the original Apollo mission was concerned about losing the astronauts and capsule to quicksand on the Moon
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