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TIL an African American WW1 veteran was tied to a tree with tire chains, and shot as many as 50 times for refusing to move off a sidewalk for a white woman

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Omne TIL because ant-eating frogs go hunting for bugs in tiny and hard-to-access places, scientists use them as a tool to go where they can’t go. By flushing their stomachs, the amphibians vomit whatever is in their bellies—revealing potential treasures, like the new ant Lenomyrmex hoelldobleri
nW4aY TIL in 2018 NHK in Japan produced a 15-minute daily TV drama, Manpuku, that dramatized the lives of Momofuku Andō and his wife Masako, the inventors of instant ramen.
p8kLZ TIL that in 1857, there were an estimated 80,000 prostitutes in London, and one out of every 60 houses functioned as a brothel
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X0V0Q TIL That, in 1991, the Bryan Adams song "Everything I Do" (which had reached #1 worldwide) was declared to be not sufficiently Canadian by the regulatory body CRTC denying it more frequent airplay in Canada. This despite Adams being made a member of the Order of Canada in 1990.