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TIL the Portuguese, who began the Atlantic Slave Trade, first began kidnapping west Africans and taking the enslaved back to Europe as early as the 15th century.

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a8rEA TIL when the Lions visited Griffith Stadium in 1939, the Redskins won 31-7. Each trip to the D.C. area had the same result, a Washington win. The Redskins had a 17-point average margin of victory during their home streak over the Lions, who finally won at Washington in 2013 with a 27-20 victory.
Ob6L TIL that in 1936, Ole Massas (slang for slave masters) came in a “close second” to the winning entry, Rebels, in a contest held by the University of Mississippi’s student newspaper to select a nickname for their football team.
8j4K TIL that John Quincy Adams, the 6th US President, took the presidential oath of office not after placing his hand on a Bible but upon a book of law.
no6b TIL that Stephen King writes 2,000 adverb free words everyday. Mr. King believes that, “Adverbs were created with the timid writer in mind.”
wXM TIL that there’s a museum in Europe that displays only objects that were meaningful to heartbroken exes.