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TIL: Dodi Fayed, who was dating Princess Diana and died in the same crash, was cousins with Jamal Khashoggi the journalist who was murdered

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w4BM TIL of The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970.
WaXY TIL: When Lead was removed from gasoline in the US, it was linked to a 56% decline in violent crime. Lead is a neurotoxin that can affect antisocial behavior.
KYDN9 TIL Science Fiction author and editor Harlen Ellison on occasion used the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird to alert members of the public to situations in which he felt his creative contribution to a project had been mangled by others
nZG7 TIL modern Westerners tend to have a lifelong attraction to fire because they don’t learn to start, maintain, and master fire during childhood. However, in cultures where fire is used as a tool from a young age, interest in it wanes around age 7.
XjP TIL Robin Williams called Spielberg every two weeks to cheer him up with various jokes during the filming of Schindler’s List.