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TIL Dave Chappelle’s grandfather really was in the Tuskegee experiments.

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xndD TIL Yao Ming’s conservation campaigns have led to a 50% reduction in the consumption of shark fin soup in China
nEdo TIL a Stanford study found out of China, Japan, Korea, or the US, Japan had the LEAST nationalistic history textbooks, despite other claims you may read on Reddit.
rNwP4 TIL that Richard The Lionheart was so feared by his Muslim enemies by the time of the Battle of Jaffa, that they literally refused to attack him. This caused his opponent Saladin to leave the battlefield in anger.
LkkpQ TIL Italy is named after a legendary king.
9jA7 TIL that in 1910, Alice Stebbins Wells was sworn in as the first policewoman in the United States by the Los Angeles Police Department and was issued a standard badge. When she was accused of impersonating her husband, LAPD presented her with “Policewoman’s Badge Number One”.