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TIL during pre-Civil War America, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters. About 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves—as opposed to less than 4.8 percent of southern whites, and dramatically more than the 1.4 percent of all white Americans who owned slaves.

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NXGoQ TIL of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15 year old Vatican teenager who disappeared while returning home from a flute lesson in Rome on 22nd June 1983. In January 2023, Vatican City opened an official investigation for the first time ever on the request of Pope Francis.
NvEP TIL that in 1894, the London Times predicted that London would be under nine feet of horse manure by 1950
O5RX TIL: that up to 75% of all adult African Americans and Native Americans and 90% of Asian Americans are lactose intolerant.
nemwP TIL of Virginia Hall, one of the most highly decorated spies in American history. Her small resistance team is credited with destroying four bridges, derailing dozens of freight trains, killing 150 German soldiers, and capturing another 300 enemy troops. She did all of this with a wooden leg.
xxB1 TIL HBO hired 160 lawyers in order to make their 2015 documentary about Scientology.