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TIL that Alice Wadsworth, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, argued in 1917 against granting women the right to vote in part because “It would be an official endorsement of nagging as national policy.”

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69LNQ TIL that California is the only state to have an image of an extinct animal on its state flag and seal
VV5m TIL there was an episode of Tom and Jerry where they both commit suicide, it is narrated by Jerry.
6pWl TIL In c. 552 two Christian monks, after learning Chinese silkworm cultivation, smuggled silkworm eggs on behalf of Byzantine emperor Justinian, resulting in the Empire’s monopoly over the European silk market and forming the foundations of its economy for the next 650 years (until its demise).
nevmd TIL Rainn Wilson, aka Dwight Schrute from The Office, went vegan after his wife rescued two pot-bellied pigs
8gmK TIL that the Infinite Monkey Theorem, stating that monkeys with typewriters and enough time could produce the entire works of Shakespeare, has been tried out in real life. They wrote five pages of S, slammed the keyboard with a stone and took a shit on it.