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TIL Romans had 'Beware of the dog' mosaics

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XE6DR TIL of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who in 1864 became the first African-American woman to become a physician in the United States. After the American Civil War ended in 1864 she moved from Boston to Virginia to provide medical care to freed slaves.
5YNEn TIL that until 2017, the toilets on UK trains flushed onto the tracks below.
lgv1 TIL Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix after a $40 late fee on a VHS copy of Apollo 13.
R5NLa TIL - Henry Ford's chief strikebreaker/union buster, Harry Bennett, was immediately fired after Ford's retirement in 1945. Bennett drew a gun on Jack Bugas who delivered the news. Bugas, a former FBI agent, then took out his own gun and threatened to shoot Bennett in the heart.
MBdA TIL “Black Wall Street”, the most affluent black neighbourhood in the early 20th century, was nearly wiped out by white residents massacring the black population in 1921