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TIL: Sally Hemings was 16 years old when she gave birth to her first child with 51 year old Thomas Jefferson

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MekB8 TIL in biblical Israel, on Yom Kippur two goats were chosen and lots were drawn for them. One was sacrificed and the other allowed to escape into the wilderness, symbolically carrying with it the sins of the community. Hence the word "scapegoat".
wbv7 TIL Some cultures speak in geographic, not egocentric terms, giving them superhuman orientation. Instead of asking you to “shift left” a little bit, they would request you “slide a little to the east” (or whatever the applicable direction was)
XE47P TIL the name Scotch Tape comes from a racial stereotype that Scottish people are cheap. When a painter was testing the product, he complained that the makers were “Scotch” with the amount adhesive on the tape.
v19wx TIL at David Niven's funeral, the largest wreath was from the porters at Heathrow Airport with a card reading "To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a porter feel like a king."
5YRkQ TIL Robert Pattinson was expelled from school when he was 12 for shoplifting explicit magazines and selling them later to his male classmates