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TIL The National African American Archives and Museum is in Mobile, Alabama. Exhibits include the History of Colored Carnival, which describes the African-American contributions to Carnival and Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile and New Orleans

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VBJ4G TIL Benjamin Franklin ran the first placebo-controlled blind experiment. In 1782 King Louis XIV hired a group of scientists to investigate Franz Anton Mesmer's medical practices. Mesmer's cures were tried against nothing/fake treatments and ultimately the fakes worked as well as the 'real' cures.
Bgglk TIL the head of the Swedish Uppsala Mafia (Uppsalamaffian) made off with over 200 million dollars with the release of a hand held gaming console called the Gizmondo that was immediately met with such harsh negative reception, it was deemed "one of the worst gaming consoles ever".
Z88EQ TIL the female hyena has a 7 inch pseudopenis through which it mates and gives birth. It’s technically an extremely enlarged clitoris.
ZpW1R TIL a man was awarded $412 million against a men's health clinic that misdiagnosed him with erectile dysfunction & unnecessarily gave him 3 penile injections a week to treat it, which caused irreversible damage. It's the largest amount ever awarded by a jury in the US in a medical malpractice case.
78nQ7 TIL the Wicked Witch of the West was never given a name in L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz books, nor in the film. But in his 1995 novel Wicked, Gregory Maguire gave her the name Elphaba based on L. Frank Baum's initials (L.F.B. = El-pha-ba).