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TIL Alfonso Ribeiro said the Carlton Banks character was as far away from who actually was as possible. He grew up with hip hop in the Bronx, and never heard of Tom Jones and had to have CDs and articles brought to him to learn what Calrton liked.

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OoxmR TIL of the Amesbury Archer (Amesbury pronounced Aims-bree), a skeleton of a Bronze Age man discovered where some new houses were going to be built.
akQ9 TIL that from 1946 to 1948, nearly 700 Guatemalans were deliberately infected by American doctors to study the effects of venereal disease. The US didn’t formally acknowledge the study or apologize till 2010.
GAGGg TIL in 2004 Eminem co-executive produced the Tupac album Loyal to the Game with Pac's mom, Afeni Shakur. Em showed his gratitude to Afeni by sending her a drawing of Pac & a heartfelt letter. He told her that Pac inspired his whole career & thanked her for the opportunities that she afforded him.
0wJly TIL that The King's School, a day and boarding school in Canterbury, Kent, England is the oldest continuously operating school in the world. It was founded in 597 AD by Augustine of Canterbury a century after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West as a medieval cathedral school.
yQJQv TIL chronic dehydration can cause respiratory problems.