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TIL “African Dodger” was an American carnival game where people paid to throw a baseball at an African American’s head

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RYk4 TIL that a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the bombing of Hiroshima. He then returned to his home city of Nagasaki the next day which would suffer the same fate. He is the only reported “double survivor” of both Little Boy and Fat Man.
BgVox TIL a BBC documentary unveiled the extreme torture of elephants in Indian temples.
gZ8y TIL the Taliban offered to give up Osama bin Laden for trial before September 11, 2001.
yK8v TIL that during World War I, the Russian and German armies were repeatedly attacked by starving wolves. It became such a problem that the two armies negotiated a temporary truce and worked together to kill several hundred wolves
BpVD TIL Tommy Chong used to be in a band called Four Niggers and a Chink.