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TIL “Black Wall Street”, the most affluent black neighbourhood in the early 20th century, was nearly wiped out by white residents massacring the black population in 1921

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4b6a TIL in 1962, LIFE magazine published an article about Lauri Rapala and his fishing lures. The cover featured recently deceased Marilyn Monroe and it became the magazine’s best selling issue. Consequently, Rapala received millions of orders and is today the leading lure manufacturer in the world.
DAOD TIL Andy Warhol owned over forty wigs and when a girl snatched off his iconic hair at a book-signing, he noted in his diary, ‘I don’t know what held me back from pushing her over the balcony.’
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oR9A TIL that a 15 year old girl with no vagina became pregnant after swallowing her boyfriend’s sperm. Her former boyfriend then stabbed her in the abdomen and the sperm travelled from her punctured stomach into her uterus, fertilising an egg.
R5gg9 TIL about the highest confirmed death toll from a lighting strike happened in Durunka, Egypt, 1994. When, during a thunderstorm, a lightning strike ignited three oil storage tanks and the floodwaters swept the blazing fuel into the village, killing approximately 469 people.