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TIL that there are over 40 million slaves living right now

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P1Qmn TIL the 2011 Joplin, Missouri EF5 tornado caused numerous fatal fungal infections in people injured by debris.
kOXRm TIL: In 1930, a group of white Southern church ladies called bullsh-- on lynching, forming the Assoc. of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. They were pretty effective! I learned it from Lillian Smith's 'Killers of the Dream' (1949), but here's an article...
AyMo TIL Willem Arondeus, a gay Dutch artist and writer, helped in the resistance against the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. He was arrested and executed. His last testimony was “homosexuals are not cowards”.
GY9JN TIL Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth's younger sister, almost married future Canadian prime minister John Turner. "It was “instant attraction … fairy tale stuff” with the young bachelor-lawyer and there were rumours about a “secret visit” to London and an order from the Queen to stop seeing him
EgoDd TIL of a condition called “Rusty Pipe Syndrome” this where your titty milk turns brown during lactation due to mixing blood