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TIL that the Turkish Embassy in DC played a vital role in desegregating Jazz scene. Two teenage sons of the ambassador would often organize events in the embassy inviting black and white artists to perform together. One of these sons went on to start Atlantic Records.

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9w59B TIL the first ever balloon pilots were a rooster, a sheep and a duck
MejY7 TIL that a man named George Meegan walked across the Western Hemisphere, a total distance of 19,019 miles. It took him close to seven years to complete his journey.
8a9Pb TIL because both Schwarzenegger and DeVito agreed with the studio to take 20% of the film's box office returns ($216 million), so it made Twins (1988) became the biggest paychecks of their whole acting career
rggo TIL that the resting place of Karl Marx has an entry fee
R1R6 TIL the Tuol Sleng extermination camp in Cambodian used vivisections without anesthesia as a form of execution. Only 7 out of 10,000 people survived the camp.