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TIL In Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence where he criticized George III on slavery trade, he referred to black slaves as "MEN" (capitalized).

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JMlV TIL that one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims managed to temporarily escape. He was found naked, drugged and bleeding from his rectum on a street corner. Dahmer convinced police that the boy was his boyfriend and that they had had an argument. The boy was returned to Dhamer and was murdered that night.
ZpRXG TIL that actor Jeff Daniels had a newly-discovered worm named after him in honor of his role in the 1990 horror comedy, Arachnophobia. The worm, Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi, is one of only two known worms known to infect tarantulas.
P14JV TIL that the first footage of a real war was shot by Frederick Villiers during the Battle of Volos in 1897
DQndg TIL that a team of researchers in New Zealand discovered a fossil of the largest ever species of penguin. Based on the size and density of the bones, it's estimated that it would have weighed 154 kgs or 340 lbs
a84eb TIL During WWII, German POWs were shipped to the US state of Montana to help pick crops.