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TIL that Virginia Woolf was part Bengali.

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4pmJ TIL While US army officer Braxton Bragg held both the job as the company commander and the post quartermaster, he made a request as commander to the quartermaster and when he received the request as quartermaster, he denied it. He continued to argue back and forth with himself through letters.
1aOAX TIL Benny Medina created The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air after growing up poor in East LA. His life changed when he befriended a rich white teenager, whose family lived in Beverly Hills and allowed Medina to live with them. Medina decided to change the rich white family to a rich black family.
R7m11 TIL Apollo 13 Splashdown Broadcast was the 4th most watched event in the history of UK, it even got more viewers than the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana
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