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TIL Mississippi was the last state to officially abolish slavery in 2013. Two medical school colleagues saw the movie “Lincoln” and got curious about the ratification of the amendment. After noticing the oversight, they pushed for the completion of the ratification.

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jNvNa TIL Charles Barkley was the first black baby born at a segregated, all-white town hospital in Leeds, Alabama and was in the first group of black students at his elementary school.
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