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TIL I am a superhuman because I don't molest kids.

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ADbmd TIL Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American person elected to the U.S. Senate. He served from February 1870 to March 1871.
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GA9QN TIL about Rabbi Sy Dresner, a advisor and friend to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1964, at a conference of rabbis , Dresner received an urgent telegram for assistance of clergy from MLK to help protest in Florida. 17 Rabbis got on a bus immediately and went down and led prayers during a swim-in
D1oVJ TIL that Malaria killed ~10k troops in the US Civil War
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