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TIL when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was studying at Harvard, the Dean of Harvard Law asked her “How do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?” Ruth transferred to Columbia Law School and became the first woman to be on two major law reviews, later becoming an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

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OoPYR TIL about Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.
0wE4p TIL Devonte Hart, the African American child famously shown hugging a police officer during the Ferguson Riots, was killed when his adoptive parents purposely drove off a 100 foot cliff.
QJX8d TIL that Diphenhydramine is marketed as both Benadryl (an allergy pill with a side of effect of making on sleepy) and also Sominex (a sleeping pill with the side effect of helping one's allergies)
yQNAl TIL of a train robber named Frank Grigware who escaped Leavenworth prison in 1910. He went on and became a mayor of a small town in Alberta, Canada. Later when he was found by the Canadian police and FBI, his charges were dropped due to doubts of his original conviction.
E14E7 TIL that the remains of Pocahontas's wedding chapel were found in Jamestown by archaeologists in 2010. The mud-walled structure, where Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1614, was "the first major English church building in North America."