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TIL Sarah Bradlee Fulton the "Mother of the Boston Tea Party" is credited with coming up with the idea that Tea Party participants wear Mohawk disguises to avoid detection from the British.

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Z8NBY TIL In 1819, when King Francis visited the Pompeii exhibition there with his wife and daughter, he was so embarrassed by the erotic artwork that he had it locked away in a "secret cabinet", a gallery within the museum accessible only to "people of mature age and respected morals".
E88w TIL Adam Reed, the creator of Archer, was in a cafe and found himself unable to approach a beautiful woman seated nearby. Instead of talking to her, he conjured up the idea of a spy who “would have a perfect line.”
ZpkB TIL during the filming of Borat, the police were called 91 times.
GAL77 TIL of Two-Gun Cohen, a British/Canadian adventurer who was a friend of Sun Yat-sen, helped China get weapons when Japan invaded in 1937, did work for the British in WW2, and when he died in 1970, his funeral was attended by both factions of the Chinese government.
kOJVm TIL Africville was a black community in Halifax dating from 1840s but razed in the mid-1960s and its 400 residents were relocated as part of a redevelopment plan. Moving Africvillers into the city was seen by the government as a way to integrate them and meet their needs