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TiL about Salaria Kea, thought to be the only African-American nurse to volunteer with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.

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QNoGe TIL that archaeologists in England dug up a 1,700-year-old Roman chicken egg — and when three of them accidentally cracked, they released the world’s oldest rotten-egg smell.
4kJw6 TIL Sam Kinison and Michael Richards aka Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld, were originally considered to play Al Bundy in the comedy sitcom "Married With Children".
RvQj TIL Despite being dead, 2pac earned 9 million dollars in 2007, more than both Eminem & 50 Cent.
bml7 TIL that on April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.
KGpG TIL Denis Cyplenkov, an arm wrestling champion and bodybuilder, has the biggest and most densely muscled hands in the world