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TIL Tupac’s grandma Assata Shakur was the first female to be put on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List and is currently hiding out in Cuba.

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l7MO1 TIL that in every U.S. state, whoever presses the button on the slot machine wins the wager, which is why in 2017, a man who had his female friend push the slot machine button for good luck did not win anything but she won $100,000.
D1P5g TIL 52 days before his death Elvis Presley while stopped at a red light saw two men beating a teenager lying on the ground and quickly got out of his car and into a karate pose and said "I'll take you two on" The fight stopped instantly and the stunned men shook his hand.
JY7j TIL ants don’t take fall damage
GAVeQ TIL: The Plaçage was a system in French slave colonies, mostly New Orleans, that allowed white men to have black concubines and allowed them some freedom and 1/3rd inheritance due to lack of white women. This led to 47% of New Orleans black men having white ancestry and being wealthier overall.
X0oak TIL that Joe Jackson would hit his kids with belts, cords of electric kettles or anything he could reach. Michael Jackson recalled that he was too fast for his father to catch most of the time, but when he did "...it was bad. He would throw you and hit you as hard as he can"