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TIL Millie and Christine McKoy Were Conjoined Twins Born Into Slavery

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knYd TIL that a building called Blok P once housed 1% of Greenland’s population. It was advertised to tourists as “so depressing that it’s almost an attraction in itself.”
X0PE8 TIL South African musician Lucky Dube was killed in a shooting because his assailants allegedly thought he was a Nigerian
a8jZM TIL Taiwan was joined to the Asian mainland until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago (in the Late Pleistocene)
7rd5P TIL the US Colony of the Philippines volunteered 25,000 men to fight in WWI. However, Washington virtually prevented their deployment, with the US Governor-General suspecting that Washington feared that Filipinos fighting well in the War would justify their claims of being capable of independence.
ANavl TIL that the “SEGA” jingle at the beginning of Sonic the Hedgehog took up ~ 1/8th of the entire game’s storage size on the cartridge!