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TIL That When King Kalakaua was in the Mainland, in Kansas he got so drunk he passed out. The legislators had James Burns act as King Kalakaua. He noted that he was "never taken for a man of Color before" at the bottom of the newspaper

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69N8W TIL Mac Miller's song "Brand Name" contains the lyric "To everyone who sell me drugs: Don't mix it with that bullshit; I'm hoping not to join the 27 Club". He did successfully avoid the club - but only because he OD'd at age 26.
nWoaP TIL During early development the gonads of the [human] fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.
wZr6 TIL Germans first female stunt pilot, Beate Uhse, tested world’s first jet-powered aircraft, escaped embattled Berlin in an abandoned aircraft together with her baby son and later started a company which today is the most successful in the German sex industry.
BgXgx TIL Despite its large population and high overall density, Mumbai has a maximum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of about 1.3, even in some of the most central locations. New York is less dense but allows a FAR of 15
4G9b TIL that black panthers are just the melanistic (opposite of albinism) color variant of leopards and jaguars and not an independent species