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TIL Archduchess Charlotte of Austria spent years as a social worker under the name Charlotte de Bar for charities in NYC and Munich

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jera TIL That at the start of the 20th century, Paris, France had a zoo full of confined humans from their colonies: Madagascar, Indochine, Sudan, Congo, Tunisia and Morocco. Over a million people visited the zoo.
J1601 TIL The Onion, the satirical online news organization, originated in 1988 in Madison, WI as a weekly print publication. The weekly printed media continued until 2013.
LQWaQ TIL nobody can say for sure why an Epicanthic fold occurs. It maybe an evolutionary advantage in cold conditions, yet it occurs in certain medical conditions regardless of environment
VAl0 TIL not only is Agatha Christie the best-selling novelist of all time, she was also among one of the first Britons to surf standing up.
5Y5nD TIL Vin Diesel wrote and directed a short film about auditioning for different roles in movies that chides the film industry for perpetuating racial and ethnic stereotypes. This propelled him into his Hollywood career.