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TIL in 1969 the FBI and Chicago police drugged and assassinated Fred Hampton, a 21 year old Black Panther leader

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E4Eo TIL in 1997, Sir Patrick Stewart put on and starred in a “photo-negative” production of Othello. He starred as a white Othello opposite a black cast. It was the first time this concept was used.
aw7Wb TIL Humans nearly went extinct, reducing to a population of only 8,800 which would qualify today as "endangered" before bouncing back
pYYVZ TIL about “The Jalen Generation”. 90’s and 2000’s NBA star Jalen Rose got his name when his mom combined James and Leonard together. There were no other Jalens at the time, but because of Rose’s popularity currently over 30 athletes with versions of the name Jalen are playing in the NBA and NFL.
Bg6ge TIL of Slavic 'pseudo-deities': pagan Gods who were made up by medieval chroniclers and 19th century romantics who wanted to give the Slavs a mythology like that of Ancient Greece and Rome
78VRL TIL about project Cybersyn, an attempt to implement a socialist economy aided by real-time computer processing and pre-internet telecommunication-based coordination in 1970s Chile