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TIL the first female US senator was also the last slave-owning US senator

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ANZEw TIL a New Jersey Councilman apparently urinated on a crowd of people in 2008
mX6P TIL that in 1992, you couldn’t be a police officer in Texas if you had “sexual contact with a member of the same sex since age 15,” or any sexual contact with “an animal or fowl since age 17.”
xKVb TIL Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels, invented the girls’ name Vanessa.
MX6B TIL that the fibonacci sequence can be used to roughly convert between miles and kilometers. If the nth term is a number of miles, the nth+1 term is roughly how many kilometers it is.
xNO0 TIL In July 1975, a 17 year old boy was killed while riding his moped. He was killed exactly a year after his 17 year old brother was killed while riding the same moped, in the same intersection, by the same taxi driver carrying the same passenger.