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TIL That all Greek statues were fully coloured but lost their pigment over time

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pYW7N TIL of Dykes to Watch Out For (sometimes DTWOF), a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel. The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "an iimportant read to new generations of lesbians."
VngB TIL that Native Americans are systematically denied access to the voting system, thus excluding them from the democratic process
x61N7 TIL Jobs/Wozniak sold illegal blue box phone phreaking devices before founding Apple
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