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TIL that Romeo and Juliet does not have a balcony scene

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5VQ6p TIL in 1999, British geneticist John Stephen Jones FRS revealed that approx.11 million of the (then) UK population of 58.7 million had a recent Black ancestor they weren't aware of. This was due to the 18th Century Black populations across the country that had been 'absorbed' into the masses...
5VWDp TIL in 1943, the United States military attempted to segregate the pubs in Bamber Bridge. In response, the local Englishmen hung "Black soldiers only" signs on all pubs as a form of protest.
PBGJ TIL: That there is so much space debris in earth’s atmosphere that in future it may just become dangerous to leave earth and we may get trapped in our own garbage.
YVGx TIL: Disney’s “Dumbo” was solely made to recoup the financial losses from “Fantasia”. “Dumbo” became an Academy Award winner and saved Disney during WW2
ep78E TIL the name Pakistan is an acronym - Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan.