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TIL that Susan B. Anthony's father withdrew her from a school that would not allow her to learn long division as boys did.

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16a74 TIL of Stephan Bibrowski, better known as Lionel the lion-faced man due to the 8 inch long hair that covered his entire face. Stephan's mother gave him away at the age of 4 as she had witnessed a lion mauling her husband while she was pregnant with Stephan, and thus viewed him as an abomination.
AMyo TIL Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off a debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widows home
4keAN TIL Magpul®, the firearms and firearms accessories manufacturer, is named "Magpul" because they began with creating a tool that helps to more easily pull a magazine from a pouch.
l4eA TIL A 2011 survey showed that 42% of people would not want to know if a loved-one was experiencing depression, and 23% believed that depression is a ‘state of mind’, not an illness.
gMn58 TIL that the Beverly Hills Hotel & Hotel Bel-Air as well as a number of high end luxury hotels are owned by sultan Hassanal Bolkiah whose country will start stoning alleged gay people and adulterers to death in a week.