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TIL: A Times Square club was fined $20,000 for barring non-Korean patrons

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b981Z TIL Josephine Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the US and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
16JBW TIL that the Roman Baths in the city of Bath, England, were closed for several years after a brain eating amoeba was found in the water
P1xon TIL that on Earth, sound has a "maximum" volume (194 dB)
yQjZe TIL that the largest underground shopping complex in the world is over 30km long, and is in Toronto, Canada.
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