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TIL white people were also sold into slavery in the ante-Bellum South

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orOr TIL that as a youth, George R.R Martin wrote stories about a mythical kingdom in which his pet turtles resided; he decided, since the turtles frequently died in their toy castle, that they were the victims of “sinister plots” designed by the others. Game of Turtles, indeed.
NXmP8 TIL in 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building between the 78th & 80th floors, which killed 14 people and injured 26 others. Although on a normal workday, as many as 15,000 people worked in the skyscraper, but the crash happened to occur on a Saturday with only 1,500 present.
Z8kBQ TIL the term "does not compute" originated as a catch phrase on the 1964 science fiction sitcom "My Living Doll"
QJaWd TIL some of the first cave art was of overly exaggerated nude woman so basically cave porn
JYenk TIL Sony sold a Walkman Mp3 player packaged in a bottle of water to prove it was waterproof