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TIL In 1920, King Alexander of Greece died from an infection caused by a monkey bite

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GDkJ TIL that back in the day, a lot of professional middle-class blacks always traveled with a chauffeur’s hat. The reason: If they were driving a nice new car through a small southern town, they didn’t want police officers, or any other whites, to know the car belonged to them.
0Z1M TIL Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week with hope it eventually be eliminated when black history became fundamental to American history. Instead it eventually became Black History Month, and critics include Morgan Freeman, who said “Black history is American history.”
b9MV7 TIL that child prodigy and world-renowned pianist Evgeny Kissin has also given recitals of modern and classical Yiddish poetry.
87xG TIL Punxsutawney Phil is so bad at predicting the weather, we would have more accurate predictions with a coin flip.
p8vdA TIL that some women are allergic to semen and that treatment for this allergy involves getting regular semen injections under the skin in your arm