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gMOKA TIL In 1906, A Congolese man called Ota Benga from a Mbuti pygmy tribe was held in a human zoo exhibition in Bronx, as a display of "earlier stage" of human evolution. In 1916, after getting out and unable to return to his homeland, he shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol and died at 32.
OGDJa TIL that both Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are two of the oldest fathers on record, fathering children at the ages of 83 and 79 respectively.
kOBj7 TIL that Harris Wittels was a writer for the Sarah Silverman show, Parks and Recreation, Eastbound and Down, and Masters of None. Amy Poehler called him the “funniest person [she] ever met”. Harris was also the drummer in the band Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die. Harris died of a heroin overdose in 2015.
kJJRB TIL that only 20 years after the Wright Brothers first flight, we had successfully completed the first air to air refueling in June 1923.
1YyD TIL that there’s a cult in the small island nation of Vanuatu, called that Prince Phillip Movement, that believes that Prince Phillip is a divine being. He once sent a signed picture of himself to them and they sent him a pig killing club.