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TIL that Neapolitan ice cream was created by the head chef for Prussian Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. Pückler owned an Ethiopian girl whom he purchased at a slave market in Cairo when she was just 11 years old, remaining his sex slave until her death at 16 from tuberculosis

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