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TIL Alan Shepard peed in his spacesuit moments before becoming the first American in space

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4kKk5 TIL that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Adams’ last words were ‘Thomas Jefferson survives’, but Jefferson died a few hours earlier.
P1xV TIL there is a family that lives on Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty.
4k1pX TIL the often-cited study that says that black babies cared for by white doctors died at a higher rate than those cared for by black doctors was a lie. Black babies with a higher chance of dying tended to be cared for by white doctors, which skewed the statistics
56Xr TIL that the expression “Yo” has been in use since the 16th century.
dvP9 Today I learned that ‘sine’ is derived from an Arabic word for 'bosom’, thus making it the oldest mathematical boobies joke.