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TIL When the LIFE board game debuted in the 1860s, it included spaces for Suicide, Prison, Poverty, and Disgrace.

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OG6g1 TIL a Christian mob killed the female universal genius Hypatia in 415 A.D. The mob stripped Hypatia naked, cut out her eyeballs, tore her body to pieces and dragged her limbs through the city. Hypatia was depicted as a teacher of mathematics, philosophy and astronomy.
kJA4d TIL about Tianducheng, a chinese town of 30,000 people built to look like Paris
1aJ6O TIL of Steve Comisar: a man who sold "solar powered clothes dryers" for $49.95 in national magazines. Unsuspecting customers would receive a length of clothes line.
wLamE TIL about Saudia flight 163. The plane had fire on the cargo compartment, and despite it landed successfully, everyone inside died, because the captain failed to evacuate
wLGW TIL that Claudette Colvin resisted bus segregation nine months before Rosa Parks, and it is her case that went to the Supreme Court — only for her to be swept under the rug by NAACP leaders since she was a pregnant teenager.