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TIL That the first self made millionaire woman in America was African American and the first freeborn person in her family.

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R7XR1 TIL about Tim Cordes, a physician with blindness. He was the third blind medical student in the U.S in 1998. Despite his impressive resume, the University of Wisconsin's medical school was the only one to accept him. They accommodated him and his service dog,Vance, went with him to clinicals.
LQdom TIL "Nuclear Gandhi", a glitch in the video game Civilization which makes the typically peaceful leader Gandhi aggressively use nuclear weapons, is a myth. There's no evidence such a glitch exists in the game, and several of the game's creators have stated that it's impossible for it to happen.
mxOOv TIL that in the early days of radio, advertisers were hesitant to invest in radio ads because they feared an ad where you couldn't just "turn the page" if you didn't like it (as you could in print) would come off as pushy and invasive
NXvD8 TIL the Frozen Food Aisle was created as a result of Clarence Birdseye learning how to flash freeze fish from the Inuits in the 1920s
GAQ64 TIL Germany still legally recognizes "Aryan certificates" that were issued by the Nazi government from 1933 to 1945.