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TIL Robin Williams was given a role by Star Trek: The Next Generation writers as a man named Berlinghoff Rasmussen for the episode "A Matter of Time" where he would play a fast-talking car salesman type time traveler who turns out to be a con man. Williams had to decline in order to film 'Hook'

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QNM7d TIL the Cagots were an outcast minority found in the west of France and northern Spain. Persecuted for centuries, they were not distinguished by any religious, ethnic or physical attributes and were just hated for who they are.
8eVG TIL that in 1906 the Bronx Zoo featured a caged African Man as an exhibit
w9XW TIL that in response to events in 2016, the artist behind the memeified “This is fine” dog comic made a new version where the dog screams “THIS IS NOT FINE!”
7rvJM TIL That the Titanic had only about 2/3 of its maximum capacity of people when it sank and more than 1000 extra people could have died had it been at maximum capacity
R57e9 TIL the "Dade" in Miami-Dade county refers to Major Francis Dade who led 110 men to forcibly remove the Seminoles Indians from Florida in 1836 but was the first man killed in an ambush by Chief Miccanopa. The battle was so decisive that the Seminoles only lost 3 men compared to the 108 lost by Dade.