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TIL One in four cowboys in the old west were African American.

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Zpgdp TIL that the end of the northern part of the Pan-American Highway, (which extends all the way from Alaska to the tip of South America), abruptly ends in a nondescript residential neighborhood in Yaviza, Panama, north of the Darien Gap.
W7o1Y TIL: After all that has been revealed at this point, the Inge Lotz murder has still not been re-opened
Z8W0p TIL The first Western abstract artist is considered to be Hilma af Klint, but although she started in 1906, she was only recognised in the 80s. In 1970 her paintings had been offered as a gift to Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art, but they didn't want them.
Ok64 TIL A 90-year-old woman was trapped in her bathtub for 3 days and survived by drinking water from a rubber duck.
m144Y TIL Columbo's character was married during the series run from 1968-1978, and the 1979 spin-off "Mrs. Columbo" featured a 24-yr old Kate Mulgrew as his wife- making her 14-yrs old when the Columbo series began in 1968.