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grv5X TIL the world’s first newspaper horoscope happened because British newspapers ran out of stuff to talk about when Princess Margaret was born in 1930.
e0yAb TIL: Thomas Jefferson, who advocated for gradual emancipation, owned over 600 slaves and was pro-segregation
69eLW TIL that a main reason historians are sure Frederick the Great was gay is on July 1750, the Prussian king unmistakably wrote to his gay secretary and reader, Claude Étienne Darget: “Mes hémorroïdes salient affectueusement votre v…” “My hemorrhoids affectionately greet your cock”
XExYk TIL in 1881, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua traveled to the International Exposition, where he met Thomas Edison, who had filed a U.S. patent for his light bulb two years earlier. That visit inspired King Kalakaua to bring electricity to Honolulu just 4 years after it was installed in the White House.
ADVrn TIL That in 1898 200 white men took over Wilmington NC killing 60 black men and replacing the black councilmen with white men.