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TIL The Silk Road was often used for slave trade

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dDl67 TIL that a congregation called the Yardbird Temple in San Francisco began worshipping acclaimed Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane as God incarnate. Although he has since been demoted to mere sainthood
VBOAG TIL there is a roadside attraction called "The Uranus Fudge Factory".
WkYbd TIL that Frederic Pryor [Bridge of Spies] was never consulted by producers about his experiences in the 1962 prisoner exchange and went to see the movie with his family. Afterwards, when pressed by other moviegoers why he thought the movie was ‘good but inaccurate’ he responded “I’m Frederic Pryor”
Br91b TIL John Brown, in 1859, was the first person to be executed for treason in the United States
1M1V TIL Oil-Dri was, a product invented for cleaning up oil spills on the garage floor it was not until a cat pissed in a bucket of Oil-Dri that they realized another use for it, cat litter. That is how Cat’s Pride became the first cat litter.