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

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R7op7 TIL about A.L.EX. (Avian Language EXperiment) the Parrot, who had the intelligence of a 5 year old human and even managed to say some famous last words: "You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you." to his caretaker.
epOr5 TIL that about twice as many people died constructing V-2 rockets than the rockets killed throughout it's use as a weapon of war
GY75J TIL of Bass Reeves, the first black U.S marshal west of the Mississippi River. At the end of his career in 1907 at the age of 70, he had arrested over 3000 felons and shot and killed 14 outlaws.
epEBL TIL that Switzerland suffered casualties in WW2, despite being neutral. The US air force accidentally bombed a number of Swiss towns, thinking they were in Germany, and several aerial incidents took place against both Allied and Axis planes due to violating Swiss airspace.
1br8 TIL hiding backwards messages in music is banned in California.