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TIL humans can be born with tails.

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vP10r TIL of the Dew Drop Inn. It was a former New Orleans nightclub known for catering to Black audiences during the segregation era. Singers such as Ray Charles, James Brown, and Earl King once performed there. The club allowed white patrons and thus was sometimes raided for violating Jim Crow laws.
X00R8 TIL Adam Smith predicted the 13 colonies would defeat the British Empire & become a great empire itself
wLnjW TIL that when France colonized Madagascar, Queen Ranavalona III was exiled to Algeria, where she lived a modest life and volunteered for the Red Cross during World War I.
j611E TIL that statues of biblical kings, located on the west facade of the Notre-Dame de Paris, were decapitated during the French Revolution because they were mistaken for statues of French kings
8avQ8 TIL To produce a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of pure cocaine requires about a ton of fresh coca leaf