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TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev is still alive

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oBlaR TIL the iconic Civil Rights photo of Walter Gadsen being attacked by a police dog was a mistake. Gadsen had no interest in the Civil Rights movement, but was skipping school, when he stumbled into a cop and frightened his dog. The cop was pulling his dog away.
yxEM TIL a black hole 12 billion light years away holds at least 140 trillion times the water in all of Earth’s oceans combined, making it the largest known reservoir of water
6E9GJ TIL Puerto Rico is only 100 miles across
Y7mOG TIL that the Seminole Tribe did not exist prior to the 1700s. It was formed in Spanish Florida by members of other tribes who were displaced out of the English colonies by settlers. Florida's original indigenous population was extinct by then from disease and enslavement brought by the Spanish.
R78ew Today I learned that Micheal Jordan was wearing new balance sneakers in the original Nike Air Jordan Jump man logo picture from time magazine.