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TIL Jesse Jackson admitted several times he enjoyed spitting in white people’s food.

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oRNAK TIL the Black Death was partially caused by a mass execution of cats due to supposed association with the Devil, allowing rats and their fleas to rapidly spread.
loZOB TIL director James Cameron completed one of the deepest dives in history into the depths of the Mariana Trench.
VBJBB TIL: the book “fly fishing by J. R. Hartley” which featured in the 1983 yellow pages advert was not a real book and J. R. Hartley was not a real person. The book was published later under the pseudonym to catch the cult status the advert generated.
5mZP TIL that Heath Ledger, on the set while filming The Dark Knight, would pass time by skateboarding around and even over other actors…in full makeup and outfit.
l7jRB TIL that the Faber-Castell pencil company was founded in 1761, and is one of the world's oldest industrial companies and has been run by the same family for nine generations!