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TIL Polaroid sold cameras to the South African government for use in making internal "passports" for black South Africans. This practice was protested by Polaroid employees.

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neDn9 TIL Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He earned enough money to buy his freedom at age 27. The following year he married his wife Tina and purchased her freedom as well.
ep066 TIL Arnold Reuben, whom the sandwich is named for, also invented New York style cheesecake.
ANxdd TIL The Walter Knott Built a Brick-by-Brick Replica of Independence Hall - in Buena Park, CA at Knott’s Berry Farm
BbbD TIL during WWII, a Chinese woman gave birth to quadruplets named United States Chiu, Great Britain Chiu, China Chiu and Soviet Chiu
6EQK8 TIL Scapegoating was an actual practice where a town would place all of their sins on to a goat and then cast it out of the town to die, thus 'removing' the sin from the town's people.