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TIL: Kokomo isn’t a real place.

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oOAW TIL that nearly half (48%) of black women in the U.S. have genital herpes
M7rrA Today I learned that if we lived on Mars, we would soon develop orange skin.
4rDb TIL that the father of French author Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, etc.) was simultaneously born into slavery & nobility & became the highest ranking person of color of all time in a European Army.
01Mp TIL that in 2001, Mark Rich received a presidential pardon after refusing to pay $48 million in taxes. He had made substantial donations to the president’s wife’s political campaign. President Carter called it the most disgraceful pardon in US history.