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TIL Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to run for president in 1972 & ran under the slogan “Unbought and Unbossed"

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nkbo TIL that during filming of the Star Trek episode “Arena”, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy stood too close to a special-effects explosion; they have both had tinnitus (ringing in the ears) ever since.
MNEb TIL there’s an alarm clock that donates your money to charities/political parties that you disapprove of every time you hit the snooze button.
x9o0 TIL the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a police officer did not need a radar gun to confirm that a motorist was speeding, but that the officer’s visual estimate of speed was enough for a conviction
awxGy TIL that the first ever east-west transatlantic flight (1919) included two stowaways, a rejected crew member named Will Ballantyne and a tabby kitten named "Whoopsie"
QNQje TIL Food blogs include long contextual stories to make their recipes harder to steal.