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TIL that African American slaves used songs to deliver encoded messages of underground railroads indicating instructions of where to go.

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OAR TIL that if you removed all of the empty space from our atoms, you could fit the entire human race into a volume the size of a sugar cube
R57pj TIL of East Asian age reckoning. An age counting system common in China Korea Japan and Vietnam. People are considered to be one the day they are born and on New Years Day a year is added. This creates the scenario where children born on December 31 become two-year-olds the very next day.
v1rJR TIL in the early 90s John Travolta's career was over until director Quentin Tarantino asked to meet. Quentin made John play board games from his past movies and had him recite famous lines to his past films. At the end of the evening Quentin offered the part of Vincent in Pulp Fiction.
yQrXJ TIL that in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series there was a robot pet character named 'Muffit 2' played by a chipanzee in a full body suit.
epwvb TIL the Native American Single Tear actor was actually Sicilian, not Native American