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TIL George Washington never had wooden teeth–but his mouth contained transplanted human teeth from his slaves.

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8xQb TIL that Malcom X had a Scottish grandmother and the reddish hair he inherited from her inspired the nickname “Detroit Red.”
GY98E TIL that someone hacked $280,000,000 from banks and donated it all to African and Palestinian charities
LBEr TIL In early 1943, an underground Jewish resistance was formed at Treblinka, a Nazi concentration camp. Some 700 Jews launched the uprising in August 1943. Only 200 managed to escape the camp and only 70 are known to have made it until the end of the war. Treblinka was closed after the uprising.
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