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TIL The First Self-Made Female Millionaire in the U.S. Was a Black Woman

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OG8G7 TIL Hedgehogs belong to the order of Eulipotyphla which means "truly fat and blind"
78AAX TIL that the plant and color “fuschia” is actually spelled “fuchsia,” (pronounced fook-see-ya, not fyoo-shah) and named after a German botanist named Leonhart Fuchs.
ADM0n TIL, that dolphins and whales don't drink sea water. They get water from the food they eat.
ADdOn TIL, killer whales are actually a species of large dolphins!
jNlnR TIL Carousels were first invented for training knights in jousting with wooden horses and try to hit targets as they spin