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TIL Germany controlled 80% of the world cocaine market in the 1920s

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9YJMm TIL in the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, a bell that has been ringing, nonstop, for at least 175 years. It's powered by a single battery that was installed in 1840.
EPLo TIL In 1847 Choctaw Indians sent $170 to Ireland as famine relief
rR0ew TIL: In 1969, when black Americans were still prevented from swimming alongside whites, an episode of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' broke the color barrier.
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