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TIL Black Soldiers in the Continental Army and states’ militia fought in every major battle of the American Revolutionary War, and in most, if not all of the lesser actions.

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bdG0 TIL Actor Jon Bernthal took a long vow of silence, to prepare for his role as a mute in the movie ‘Pilgrimage’ which allowed him to discover some important lessons about human nature. “I learned how much time people spend talking and they’re not really saying anything, they’re just passing time.”
mxMAx TIL, actor Tim Allen's father died in a car accident in 1964 when Tim was only 11 years old when that happened. A drunk driver collided into the father's car.
8eA5X TIL Wyoming passed a law that bans burying wind turbine blades in landfills
QJoDM TIL Einstein didn't know how to swim, but he refused to wear a lifejacket. He was always running his boat aground because he was so busy relaxing that he didn’t look to see where he was going. His family was convinced that if he didn’t drown, he’d get his head smashed by the masts and spars.
oRogK TIL that black/melanistic squirrels are extremely rare genetic morphs (1 in ~10,000 individuals) outside of Canada. Living in Canada and seeing black coats on many squirrels (in Ontario, nearly all of them), I've grown up thinking melanism in squirrels was an extremely common phenotype.