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TIL-Blackface minstrelsy was the first uniquely American form of theater

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j6X1E TIL Santa Claus slapped Arius the Heretic, saved girls from becoming prostitutes, and resurrected 3 "pickled children"
l7elV TIL that the average IQ is steadily increasing each generation. IQ tests are getting harder and harder to keep the average at 100, and today's kids taking tests from previous decades have an average score of over 100.
grwkD TIL that Nazi food scienists made synthetic butter (margarine) out of coal
loDWr TIL that in 1962, president John F Kennedy snagged 1200 Cuban cigars for himself before he banned their import.
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