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TIL Blanche Kelso Bruce, who served as US senator from Mississippi, was an escaped fugitive slave

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9mWQ TIL On 29 September 2008 from one single day $1.2 trillion had been wiped off from the United States stock market. It was the worst single day drop for two decades.
8xaV TIL Cryos, the world’s largest sperm bank, has started turning down redheaded donors because there is too little demand for their sperm
M488 TIL that reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone changed the entire geography of the park: as elk were displaced, saplings that would have been eaten by elk were spared, riverbank erosion was brought under control, and streams and rivers shifted their courses.
9YRor TIL that 37(1+1+1)=111, 37(2+2+2)=222, 37(3+3+3)=333, and this pattern continues to 37(9+9+9)=999
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