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TIL actor Alan Alda teaches improv to scientists to help their public speaking

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yVBKV TIL that Neapolitan ice cream was created by the head chef for Prussian Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. Pückler owned an Ethiopian girl whom he purchased at a slave market in Cairo when she was just 11 years old, remaining his sex slave until her death at 16 from tuberculosis
woNyo TIL Magikarp has a crown, and is called Koi King in Japan 4:10 in the video
4goN TIL that some schools in the Southern United States still hold two separate, segregated proms- one for whites and one for blacks.
JWZk TIL middle names became a necessity during the middle ages because there were too many people with the same name and populations had risen exponentially, “The great cities on the planet earth were only a fraction of their size hundreds of years ago.”
WB8 TIL The movie ‘30 Minutes or Less’ was a real story with a much more horrifying outcome