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TIL that the father of “The Three Musketeers” writer Alexandre Dumas remains the highest ranking black military official in European history

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MAYB TIL London 2012 was the first Olympic Games ever to be completed without a single fatality in construction. Over 60 were killed in the construction of the Sochi games
9KaG TIL:Leonardo DiCaprio has never done drugs and had to get taught how to play being high by drug experts.
6EY9Q TIL During the 1910s–1930s there were a series of murders of Osage people in Oklahoma. The murders intent was likely taking Osage land, which was producing oil and earned lucrative royalties. The US government managed the land leases and was forced to pay $380 million in 2011 for unpaid royalties.
81vb TIL for the 1997 Ellen “coming out” episode, many advertisers (including Wendy’s - permanently) pulled out from the show, and ABC added a parental advisory to all future episodes
m1EJo TIL that the "feels like" temperature refers to an actual physical difference in how quickly your body loses heat rather than just how the temperature is perceived psychologically