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TIL About Thomas Fuller an illiterate enslaved African whose Math Genius shocked Colonists, capable of quickly solving math problems in his head he earned the title of “The Mental Calculator” serving as a figurehead of Africans not being mentally inferior to Whites further abolitionist efforts

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LkMn9 TIL Terry Crews received a scholarship to attend the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, a prestigious art school. His first job in entertainment was drawing courtroom sketches for the worst murder case in Flint, Michigan history. The murder who had killed six people was also named Terry.
WJ6B TIL in 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator. It was crashed the following year.
lB17 TIL only once has a submarine sunk another sub while both were underwater
9mWQ TIL On 29 September 2008 from one single day $1.2 trillion had been wiped off from the United States stock market. It was the worst single day drop for two decades.
Me7DB On July 14th, the New Horizons spacecraft will make history when it sails past Pluto, formerly known as the ninth planet. Even more incredible is how fast we got there. The spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles in nine and a half years. That’s about a million miles a day for almost ten years. How the heck did we do it?