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TIL Alexander Dumas (writer of the Three Muskateers)'s father was the first French black General and was the highest ranking black military officer in history for nearly 200 years.

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L0GZ TIL that in the 60s there was a spin off of The Black Panther Party called The White Panther Party that won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1972. The court ruled warrantless wiretapping was unlawful under the U.S. Constitution, even in the case where national security was in danger.
jNjZp TIL that Sony’s PlayStation was developed to be an add-on CD-ROM unit to the Super Nintendo. Instead, Sony decided to compete against Nintendo after the latter announced a partnership with Philips on the CD drive one day before the SNES-Play Station was supposed to be announced by Sony.
8an1L TIL The Worlds oldest mummies are not from Egypt. They are from the Chincorro people of the Atacama Desert, present day Chile, dating back to 5000 BC, nearly 2000 years before the Egyptians
oRlr7 TIL of Deborah Sampson. She was a woman from Massachusetts who disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After her sex was revealed in 1783 she was honorably discharged at West Point.
GMZE TIL: The “tradition” of spending several months salary on an engagement ring was a marketing campaign created by De Beers in the 1930’s. Before WWII, only 10% of engagement rings contained diamonds. By the end of the 20th Century, 80% did.