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TIL all four daughters of Karl Marx were called Jenny.

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OK9R TIL zoo keepers in England had to learn French in order to speak to baboons coming from a french zoo, because the animals didn’t respond to english commands.
m10DY TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona
69Rem TIL about Mark Gleeson, a 26 year-old man who attempted to cure his snoring by pushing tampons up his nose, resulting in his death by suffocation while sleeping.
MADb TIL that when “EMI Films” pulled funding from Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” citing religious reasons, George Harrison mortgaged his house and started “HandMade Films” production company, because he remarked that after reading the script, he just had to see it made
DmAv TIL that from 1936-1966, black Americans going on a road trip often used a “Negro Motorist Green Book” that would list businesses that sold to black people. The book helped travelers avoid one of 10,000 “sundown towns”, places it was the law that all non-whites had to leave the town by sundown.