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TIL that in 18th century Russia there was a black African man called Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Freed from slavery and adopted by Peter the Great as his godson, he reached the status of nobility - with one of his great-grandsons being Alexander Pushkin, one of the greatest Russian writers in history.

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