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TIL the HBCU, Spelman was named after Laura Rockefeller whose maiden name is Spelman

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nWLjd Today I learned Berry Gordy, founder of Mo Town Records, is a blood-related distant cousin of President Jimmy Carter as a consequence of slavery.
pLLO TIL: A Gurkha, armed only with a knife, fought off 40 men trying to assault an 18 year old girl, killing several.
XEMdk TIL Ken Jeong would add little inside jokes into the Hangover movie to make his wife, who was battling breast cancer, laugh when she watched it.
R78vj TIL Coca-Cola was originally made when it’s creator, Civil War Colonel John Pemberton, was wounded and became addicted to morphine. Coca-Cola was the result of his search for a substitute.
GjmQ TIL that when Netflix became aware of the North Korean Netflix “Manbang”, they changed their Twitter bio to read “Manbang knockoff”.