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TIL That Africans were once an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

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neDOd TIL that Albert Baez, the father folk singer Joan Baez, while enrolled at Stanford's doctoral program in physics co-invented (with his doctoral program advisor) the X-ray reflection microscope for examination of living cells. Later in his career he helped develop the x-ray telescope.
epOYE TIL that the "Dead Sea Scrolls" were discovered in the 1940s, a set of ancient scripts written by an independent Jewish sect called the Essences
XaXR TIL: Richard Johnson, the 9th Vice-President of the USA, literally owned his wife. Slave Julia Chinn was 1/8ths African and was inherited by Johnson after his father’s death. Interracial marriage was illegal, so Johnsonn kept her as his “slave.”
4XA5a TIL that in 1950, to test the potential impact of a biological attack, the US Navy released a supposedly harmless bacteria over San Francisco, hospitalizing several people and killing one.
x60p5 TIL that the song "Kids" by MGMT was one of the songs they wrote as a joke, which makes me a little sad, because it was one of my favorites.