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TIL The last known living survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade died in 1940 at the age of 83.

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awEA TIL that people seeing the movie version of “Clue” in theaters didn’t know which of the three endings they were going to see when they went into the movie. Eventually, theaters began advertising which ending the movie would have so people could see the endings they hadn’t already seen.
yQmOJ TIL that Orson Welles knew, or had met, FDR, Truman, General George Marshall, Churchill, and Hitler.
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