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TIL Justin Bieber has been banned from China in order to 'purify' nation

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B7dr TIL that abolitionist & former slave Sojourner Truth, when accused of being a man by a man in the crowd, opened her blouse and after shaking her 59 year old tits at him asked “Want a suck?”
8kXV TIL that FedEx’s current CEO and founder Frederick W. Smith didn’t have enough money to keep the company afloat, he took the remaining 5k and brought it to Vegas and by Monday morning they had 32k, enough to fuel their planes and stay in business long enough for another round of funding.
eYbg TIL that Adolf Hitler absolutely despised smoking and German doctors were the first to link smoking with lung cancer, which led to the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history. This consisted of restrictions on tobacco advertising and smoking in public spaces.
P1lKw TIL that although the Everest is the mountain with the most dead mountaineers, it isn't considered as deadly as other mountains, with a higher fatality rate
6Ed08 TIL that some Native Americans tribes were major slave holders.