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TIL only one graphic novel has ever won a Pulitzer Prize: Maus, a memoir/biography of a Holocaust survivor, featuring anthropomorphic animals

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v1bOB TIL the first black baseball player wasn't Jackie Robinson, but rather Moses Fleetwood Walker, who played in the 1880s despite rampant racism. He was also an inventor, newspaper editor, hotel owner, opera house manager, postal worker, and a published author on race theory.
yV76M TIL Watching too many short videos can cause us to easily lose focus and always in rush to find the point right away
jNG6Q TIL that America is the only country that refrigerates eggs in shops
j6jQv TIL that the Komusō were Japanese monks who symbolized their absence of ego by always wearing baskets on their heads.
yVr48 TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German".