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TIL that Joe Jackson would hit his kids with belts, cords of electric kettles or anything he could reach. Michael Jackson recalled that he was too fast for his father to catch most of the time, but when he did "...it was bad. He would throw you and hit you as hard as he can"

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KDGw TIL that when asked by his generals on his deathbed on who should succeed him, Alexander the Great may have said the name of one of his generals, “Krateros”. But because Krateros wasn’t around, the generals may have chosen to hear “Kratistos” or “To the strongest.”
8Vm8 TIL a child that was Bart’s age when The Simpson’s first premiered would now be the same age as Homer.
lrbB TIL: HIV is no longer a death sentence, the life expectancy for a HIV positive person is almost equal to a HIV negative person.
4k8w6 TIL African-Americans enjoyed equal rights in the aftermath of the Civil War. It was a series of policies and Supreme Court decisions that disenfranchised the black community and stripped them gradually over the decades over their newfound freedoms. In 1873 there was even a Black Governor of LA.
gr6by TIL the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Titanic) was used as troop transport during WW1 and sank a German submarine