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TIL the term "paint the town red" entered useage after an English town was literally painted red by a drunk gang.

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kOW0W TIL Chief Justice Fred Wilson, who presided the Brown v Board of Education trial initially, was holding the opinion that the Plessy v Ferguson verdict should stand. He died in September 1953 and replaced by Earl Warren. Warren made the Racial Segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Abjd TIL the oldest known song dates from 1400BC
1N7O TIL: The Vietnamese are the biggest consumers of the rhino horn and they received the idea that rhino horn was an aphrodisiac from the western media’s false reporting. There is no known record of its use as an aphrodisiac in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
gK47 TIL that according to his brother, the last words of Vincent van Gogh were “The Sadness Will Last Forever” following his supposed suicide.
GYv71 TIL someone secretly built a subway under Broadway, NYC