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TIL Harrison Ruffin Tyler is the (living) person with the oldest father. His dad was born in 1853.

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8e1ZK TIL that there are very few figurative statues in honour of enslaved people in the entire Caribbean - only 6!
Jb5V TIL a stray dog saved a woman after she crashed down an embankment and was thrown through the back window of her car. The German Shepherd emerged from the woods, pulled her by the collar off the trunk and 50 yards through the briars to the road where she could be seen by passing motorists.
5Vxnp TIL of Anthony Babington's recovery from brain damage. He was so badly wounded in WW2 that his girlfriend left him; he could not talk and was paralyzed on his right side. Babington learned to speak and write again, became a lawyer and judge, and wrote many books.
0wgnM TIL of John Laurens, an officer in the Continental Army who strongly opposed slavery, and tried unsuccessfully multiple times to institute black regiments in the struggle for independence. His abolitionist views were admirable, considering his South Carolina birth and father’s ownership of slaves.
5VOGP TIL Mars has two speeds of sound. Lower-pitched sounds travel more slowly on Mars than higher-pitched ones.