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xkrD TIL that more Colombians die every year from American tobacco than Americans die from Colombian cocaine
rEJ1 TIL American poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson was rejected by both the white and the black society because white people found she was “too black” and black people found she was “too white”.
nepDb TIL That due to some missing paperwork, Ohio wasn't legally a state until 1953. 150 years after the Ohio constitution was presented to congress.
oBdwY TIL the quote, "History is written by the victors" is widely misattributed to Winston Churchill and that the sentiment predates him by many years. The pronouncement on the nature of history was voiced earlier by people such as Hermann Göring and the Confederate Congressman George Graham Vest.
b95Nj TIL that back in Roman times they used to celebrate the new year in the month of the first harvest after winter, which was March. That makes March the first month of the year, and Sept Oct Nov and Dec indeed the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months.