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TIL: There is a ½ mile long wall in Detroit originally built to separate blacks from whites

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X0pJP TIL In the year 133BC, Rome became the first city ever to reach a population of 1 million. The next European city to do so was London in the year 1801AD, almost 2,000 years later.
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WkWJN TIL Chuck Yeager enlisted as private, was an aircraft mechanic before becoming a pilot, got shot down over France but escaped, had 11.5 aerial victories, broke the sound barrier and multiple speed records as a test pilot, and retired from the US Air Force after 34 years as a brigadier general.
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