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TIL in 1874, the Freedman’s Savings Bank, created to help African Americans build wealth, collapsed due to mismanagement and fraud. Over 60,000 Black Americans lost about $3M in savings, devastating trust in financial institutions and crippling Black economic progress many decades.

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e0jL6 TIL that in the novel “No Country for Old Men,” set in 1980, Sheriff Bell refers to dope dealers who “shot and killed a federal judge” in San Antonio. The film version stars Woody Harrelson, whose father was the real-life contract killer convicted of that murder in 1979.
eJWg TIL Nikola Tesla created the first logic gate in 1898 when he created the first remote controlled vehicle, over 50 years before Walther Bothe won the Nobel Peace Prize for it. He reportedly told onlookers multiple times it was simple science beforehand so that they would not think it witchcraft.
6Ex88 TIL that San Marino is obliged to use Italy's mint, and is forbidden to cultivate tobacco. In exchange for these limitations, Italy provides San Marino an annual stipend of 250 tonnes of sea salt, 40 tonnes of tobacco and 20 tonnes of cigarettes.
oAjE TIL Masha, a stray cat in Russia, kept a 2-month old abandoned baby boy warm in freezing temperatures before being found. The baby survived.
XExRE TIL about Matilda Joslyn Gage, an abolitionist, suffragist and theosophist who wrote a book called “Women, Church and State.” She was also “The Wizard of Oz” author L Frank Baum’s mother in law, and it is suggested she inspired his “good witches.”