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TIL That of "Rabbit Starvation" where you can waste away and even die if you're eating meat with little to no fat on it

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MeBw7 TIL that no one can agree on what killed George Washington, but that he definitely lost about 40% of his blood during his final day from bloodletting.
kOroe TIL about Sarah Rector, an impoverished black girl who became a millionaire oil baron when oil was discovered on the land allotted to her by the government. She avoided hundreds of attempts tp scam her out of her fortune and became known as the “Richest coloured girl in the world.”
Wk4M8 TIL proslavery literature was written after the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' like the parody 'Aunt Phillis's Cabin' which states: "slaves are comfortable and contented, and their owners humane and kind"
GAwxJ TIL Apple's Siri means "beautiful woman who leads you to victory" in Norwegian and was named by Dag Kittalaus. Steve Jobs didn't like it, but couldn't come up with something better. It's also shorthand for "Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface".
e0QE TIL There were 999 cases of Black Death reported in the United States between 1900 and 2010.