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TIL a British millionaire who bought the Segway company died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his Yorkshire estate

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LQ6VV TIL Alexander Clark sued and achieved the first successful school desegregation case in Iowa in 1868, 86 years before Brown v. Board of Education.
yQLda TIL the kid starring in Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" went on to become Uncle Fester in the Addams Family TV series (bonus he married Betty Grable too)
5VYLQ TIL The space probe Voyager 2 looses about 4 watts of power annually due to natural decay of its nuclear fuel.
1a0GX TIL That the first person to die in the Boston Massacre, and thereby the first person to die in the American Revolution was an African-American named Crispus Attucks
oY4A TIL Ball, the maker of the glass mason jars, is making the mirrors for the James Webb telescope and made the optics for Hubble.Also they are one of the biggest defense contractors.