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TIL that today in Confederate Park, Fort Mill SC, there is a monument to “faithful slaves” that fought for the “principles of our Confederate States of America.”

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oBjeE TIL: After the $4 "Stella" coin was rejected by Congress the already minted coins were sold to Congressmen at cost. This later became a source of scandal when a number of them ended up as jewelry pieces adorning the necks of madams operating some of Washington's most infamous brothels.
bYA0 TIL that Django and Broomhilda are supposed to be the great-great-great-great grandparents of John Shaft, from the Shaft movie series
LoXv TIL The South Pole experiences a 6-month period of darkness, during which scientists at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station have a tradition of watching The Thing, a movie about a humanoid alien who attacks an Arctic research outpost.
YrvA TIL that living in an area where you can see the ocean has been found to reduce psychological stress, even after controlling for factors such as income and neighborhood status.
gMmOW TIL that the quality of a woman’s voice fluctuates through the course of her menstrual cycle with the “best voice” (higher pitch) during the ovulatory phase & “worst” during the premenstrual phase which is referred to as “premenstrual voice syndrome.”