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TIL that Uncle Tom was actually a very selfless and pious man who was brutally beaten for protecting fellow blacks

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9nZB TIL More Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water. 63% have access to piped water. Yet, 93% of Africans have cell phone service.
wo8nW TIL of Gabe Sonnier, a man who started off as a janitor in a Louisiana elementary school until one day in 1985, when he was inspired by the then-principal to take up teaching. Gabe was 39 years old when he started studying for a teaching degree. He’s now the principal of that elementary school.
AJJ7 TIL that during late WW2, the Nazis designed a plane named the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. It flew so fast that it was untouchable by enemies, but it went so fast that its own pilots weren’t capable of shooting enemy aircrafts before their plane flew past their adversaries.
LZJ9 TIL Viggo Mortensen wore a Montreal Canadiens t-shirt under his armor throughout filming the Lord of the rings trilogy
Yp9v7 TIL : Another factor for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest was the death of Chinese reformist Hu Yaobang and rapid market economic reform. and at their last stand, the protester sings the international socialist anthem to protest the Chinese leadership for betraying their original ideas.