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TIL that one of the biggest slave trades in history was Barbary slave trade in which millions of Europeans were enslaved by North Africans between 16th and 19th century.

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xVJQb TIL in 1918 at a Boy Scout medal ceremony, Teddy Roosevelt attempted to make a joke at Theodor Geisel’s expense by exclaiming “What’s this boy doing here?” but it backfired, causing the future Doctor Seuss to develop a lifelong fear of crowds.
1a0Or TIL That in Order to Avoid Predators, Turkeys Sleep in Trees at Nigh!
ZpVyv TIL the production for Mork and Mindy had to hire a censor that spoke 4 languages to keep track of Robin Williams secretly trying to slip in swear words in other languages during filming of the show
vPm98 TIL that the 1976 film "Stalker" eventually caused the creation of the Burning Man festival.
5Vrxk TIL about the "boiling frog", an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly.