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TIL the first legal slave owner in what would become the United States was a black man

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M7YnW TIL of the Wilkes land crater - a Gravitational anomaly buried under the Antarctic Ice Sheet which is believed to be an impact crater.The Wilkes crater is THREE times the size of the Chicxulub crater that wis believed too be responsible for the K-Pg mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs
X06NX TIL about Jerónimo de Ayanz, a 17th century Spanish soldier, painter, astronomer, musician and inventor whom registered the first modern patent for a steam engine, designed a submarine and tested out a diving suit before Felipe III by submerging a man in the Pisuerga river for an hour.
1xBO TIL that Tom Hanks has a brother, Jim Hanks, where a majority of his work is to do voice overs that sound like Tom Hanks.
d6V7 TIL The movie “The 13th Warrior”(1999), starring Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif, bombed and was panned so critically that Sharif temporarily retired from acting
wo0W6 TIL that Valentine’s Day originated from the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia. During the feast, priests sacrificed two goats and a dog, then ran around touching women and crops with the bloodstained hides, believing it would increase fertility.