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TIL a slave during the 1800s transatlantic slave trade cost 400X what a slave costs today on average

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xV1o0 TIL that the young cast of “It” were warned beforehand that Bill Skarsgård, who plays Pennywise, could be uncharacteristically scary in character. The kids brushed this off, but when Skarsgård came out for their first scene together, he scared them so badly that most ended up crying or screaming.
xAdw TIL that Jefferson’s original Declaration of Independence contained a paragraph about the evils of slavery.
yQOJ TIL WoW experienced a virtual epidemic (later studied by epidemiologists), with some players volunteering healing services and others directing players away from infected areas.
VV70 TIL Lake Superior is so voluminous it could cover the entire area of the United States in over 4 feet of water
ver TIL Nikola Tesla was an advocate of sterilising criminal, people with mental problems and believed that by 2100 people who aren’t “desirable parents” shouldn’t be able to breed