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TIL the Steps on Titanic’s Grand Staircase were Linoleum.

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oBpKA TIL the term "little pink"
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8bRV TIL that Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend a white school in the south, attended class by herself because parents of white students would not let them learn with her, and she ate only food she brought from home because a woman repeatedly threatened to poison her
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