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VBlMm TIL in June, 1889, Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night. Three months later, the Nintendo company was founded to produce and market playing cards.
J1Mj8 TIL Karate (唐手道) originally, literally meant the Way of the Tang Hand (Chinese fist), it was later renamed to 空手道 (also pronounced Karate), meaning Way of the Empty Hand (Unarmed fist) as recently as 1905 because Japan wanted to culturally distance itself from China as it was invading the country
YNW7 TIL Camden, New Jersey, with a population of 70,390, is per capita the poorest city in the nation
kBoe TIL that according to Rotten Tomatoes, the Toy Story trilogy is the most critically acclaimed trilogy of all time.
4ad5 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the 1968 Baltimore riots: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”