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TIL: Pieces of Africa are embedded in the southeastern United States

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ADD8d Turkey got your tongue?
VBkBD TIL the White Lion brought African indentured servants to what became the USA a year before the mayflower.
Wx7o TIL a French man on trial for witchcraft in the 1500’s decided to troll his accusers before being sentenced to death and declared that not only was he indeed a sorcerer, but there were more than 300,000 others in France alone, setting off mass hysteria across the country
rDR4 TIL that the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, a secular, democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. This led to 26 years of rule under a repressive monarch.
X0gnQ TIL Littering can result in imprisonment of up to six years in Tennessee