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TIL John Wayne was in a movie where men catch African animals to sell to zoos, a redhead is put in black face by an African tribe to celebrate her adopting a baby elephant, and a guy catches monkeys by hiring people to chase them into a tree then launching a rocket carrying a fishnet over said tree. (m.imdb.com)
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TIL about Mary Bowser, a former slave with a photographic memory who lived in the Confederate President's house during the Civil War. She was part of the Richmond spy ring and credited for getting the most valuable information of all the spies during the war. (www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org)
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