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TIL that Connecticut-born Ann Petry was the first African-American woman to sell over 1 million copies of a book with her 1946 novel The Street.

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xNDg TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.
9YMQ TIL, Lang Hancock (Gina Rinehart’s father) suggested forcing aboriginals - to collect their welfare cheques from a central location: “And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.”
P19bO TIL that farts travel at 10 ft/s (or 6.8 mph/3 km per hour), and a scientist who studies farts is called a flatologist
WMRd TIL student loan debt doesn’t go away if you declare bankruptcy
Eg4kd TIL the first traffic signal, erected in London in 1868, was powered by gas. A gas leak caused it to explode a month later.