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TIL that Frida Kahlo grew up during a revolution, and the nationalism that followed would inspire her art.

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N7oJN TIL of the oldest known strike. On this date in 1152 BCE, the artisans of the Royal Necropolis at Deir el-Medina walked off their jobs because they had not been paid. The Egyptian authorities raised the wages.
epEwL TIL Elizabeth Short’s (the Black Dahlia) mother found out she’d been murdered when a reporter called her and said her daughter won a beauty contest. The reporter then proceeded to get a bunch of information about Elizabeth before telling her mother she'd been brutally murdered and hanging up.
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