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TIL about Joshua Norton. The one and only emperor of these united states.

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1a7mW TIL of George Dantzig, who was late to class and solved two famously unsolved statistics problems because he thought they were homework.
pYWRp TIL of James Reeb, a Universal Unitarian minister and Civil Rights activist who was murdered by segregationists while heading to the Selma to Montgomery marches. Despite three men being tried, they were acquitted by an all-white jury, and his murder remains officially unsolved.
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