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TIL that Aaron Burr, infamous for killing Alexander Hamilton, was an early proponent of women’s rights. He praised Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” and provided his daughter with an education usually only afforded to boys of the time.

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GAYeJ TIL that prior to the advent of city parks, it was quite common for people to picnic in cemeteries
gr07 TIL that the Fresh Prince actually flew first class from Philly to Bel Air in a verse that got cut for TV. This whole time I thought he took the smelly cab the whole way.
5EVB TIL United Airlines has no provision in their Contract of Carriage to remove a passenger from an oversold flight, only to deny them boarding the flight.
QJ5Zd TIL Every "face" actor at Disney must spend time as a mascot character before they can recieve training for face characters.
DGDe TIL in 2009 a Hungarian art historian, while watching the movie Stuart Little with his daughter, spotted a long-lost avant-garde painting in the background. The painting was bought by a set designer in a Pasadena antiques shop for “next to nothing”, and later sold for $285,700 at an auction.