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TIL: Black men make up 5% of population, 50% of murder convictions

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69AGQ TIL that one of the original “triggered feminist” women was actually not triggered at all
WkPJ4 TIL that for three months a man named Kasongo Ilunga was the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Minister of Trade and vice president of the UNAFEC Party despite, apparently, not actually existing.
DQBaj TIL that Alan Hale Jr. Was only 43 when he started playing "The Skipper" on Gilligan's Island.
VBAQ8 TIL The International Ice Patrol was founded in 1914 in response to the Titanic sinking to report the movements of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It stills exists to this day.
XEWP8 TIL that after many tragedies in Frida Kahlo's life, such as a bus accident in which a metal rail entered her hip and exited through her vagina leaving her with pain her entire life, and having half her leg amputated, her last written words were "I joyfully await the exit and I hope never to return"