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TIL Harriet Tubman had narcolepsy. She developed it after getting hit in the head with a 2lb weight and suffering a TBI. Wanted ads used to describe her as having “a habit of abruptly falling asleep.”

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dDYW8 TIL three candidates running for mayor in a Romanian town had the same name. None of them were related.
DPRj TIL Canada’s 1st Prime Minister ‘Sir John A. Macdonald’ was so hammered during one of the first election debates that he started vomiting violently and had to be sent home.
5Y4dR TIL US cotton exports were so cheap and competitive that they bankrupted the Egyptian economy back in the 1800s
j6ABn TIL about Skeeter Syndrome, a rare allergic reaction to mosquito bites that results in hard, plate-like sores that can limit mobility
e0NK6 TIL that in the early 2000s, Sony was accused of fuelling conflict in central Africa and exploiting child slaves to obtain minerals for use in the manufacture of Playstations