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TIL Mae Louise Miller, was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961

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VBVlG TIL Hitler's naval chief Erich Raeder sent an officer to follow the former Minister of War (Werner von Blomberg) around on his honeymoon in Italy and 'persistently' try to convince Von Blomberg to commit suicide.
AwWB TIL it would take 375,000 2x2 LEGO bricks stacked on top of each other to break the bottom brick
D1mOD TIL that “low-key photography” consists of shooting dark-colored scenes while emphasizing light only on specific areas in the frame
o8kr TIL that engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab have developed a next-generation prosthetic: a robotic arm that has 26 joints, can curl up to 45 pounds and is controlled with a person’s mind just like a regular arm.
16RE7 TIL about Dr. Robert Liston, a victorian London surgeon known for his speed and strength, could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds, often holding the knife between his teeth. However, his speed led to mishaps, including slicing off a patient's testicle and severing his assistant's fingers.