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TIL that in 1895 a white man in Louisiana was lynched by a white crowd for an attempt to lynch a black woman

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ENaV TIL that in 1937 the Nazis held an exhibition of art you should dislike (“Degenerate Art”), the work of artists such as Ernst, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Picasso.
R7kNQ TIL of Naoto Matsumura, the "guardian of Fukushima’s animals." He is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s radioactive exclusion zone and cares for all the animals left behind. He refuses to worry that radiation levels will kill him, saying "I'll probably be dead by then anyway."
P117e TIL there's a D&D game that's been going on for 40 years. The Dungeon Master became a history professor so he could craft more believable worlds for his game.
7rGdL TIL apes never ask questions. Apes are able to learn sign language and even communicate using it, apes have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. Apes can't realize that others can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates humans from apes.
4XYYo TIL: Michael Shen Fu-Tsung was one of the first Chinese to visit England in 1681. His works can still be found at Oxford University library.