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TIL that despite being 8369 times bigger than Washington DC, Alaska has only 50k more people living in it.

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4XE6a TIL of Tarrare, an 18th century Frenchman with abnormal eating habits. He ate live animals, rocks, military documents, and allegedly a toddler. When he died of TB, doctors found him to have an enormous, pus-filled stomach, and other oversized organs. You could see his stomach from down his mouth.
pEMO TIL that an African man won a court case in the 1650s that let him keep another African, John Castor, as his slave. That means that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America was an African man.
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