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TIL in 1878, with $11 of savings, Alonzo Herndon walked out of the town he grew up sharecropping in and developed an empire of barber shops, real estate, and the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. He became a millionaire and a charter member of the Niagara Movement and National Negro Business League.

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d8rPQ TIL that in Disney's The Sword in Stone, Arthur was voiced by three actors, leading to noticeable changes in voice between scenes — and sometimes, within the same scene. "Two [of the voice actors] were brothers, and sound somewhat similar; the third was not, and sounds distinctly different."
P1dkg Today I learned that in the debut single of famous rapper Juice WRLD, "All Girls Are The Same," he compares himself to legendary musician John Lennon, inciting how both of them are jealous guys. He coincidentally died on the same day as him, December 8th, but 39 years after Lennon died in 1980.
4Xy6J TIL of the Saratoga Springs Legend. A claim that crisps were invented in New York, despite being invented in England decades earlier. This legend continued into at least the 1970s when a major advertising campaign attributed the invention of crisps to the US.
LL1d TIL In 1955, cigarettes were sold in vending machines that only accepted quarters, but a pack of cigarettes cost only 23 cents. Instead of raising the price, cigarette manufacturers included two pennies in the package.
M1Y8 TIL that thanks to CERN, we now know that every atom in the Universe could be undone in an instant by a simple, unpredictable, unstoppable event: a quantum tunnel causing a phase-shift in the Higgs field.