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TIL Bill Gates' full name is William Henry Gates III

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Z8ZD4 TIL Cinderella is not the real name of the protagonist, instead it was an insulting nickname given to her. she was forced to sleep in the ashes and because of that she was always covered in dust and dirt
OGO1R TIL when doing a push up a person is pressing between 69-75% of their total body weight
epaM5 TIL-Blackface minstrelsy was the first uniquely American form of theater
Lke9P TIL journalist Ida B. Wells boldly wrote about the evils of lynching in 1892 that "a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give."
MeKEb TIL that the FBI investigated the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", when it was being made and eventually released, for being communist propaganda