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78aGZ TIL that Gene Roddenberry had an open relationship with both Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett.
xmE5 TIL a 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man was bought for $1.5 million by a New York businessman
YpL8Z TIL: There are still monuments in Colfax Louisiana memorializing 3 white men killed in the process of slaughtering 180 freed blacks in 1873.
v10D4 TIL the Toyi-toyi was a dance used in protests in South Africa, especially against apartheid, where crowds would jump from one foot to the other
pYrLb TIL gerrymandering is named after a famous case where an 1812 district signed into law by Massachusetts Governor, Elbridge Gerry, resembled a salamander. A political cartoon published in the Boston Gazette dubbed it the "Gerry-mander".