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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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OGj8e TIL in the 52 BCE Battle of Alesia, Julius Caesar’s troops built 25 miles of earthen walls in a few weeks, including spiked trenches, hidden pits, water-filled moats, wooden walls, stakes with iron hooks, and hundreds of lookout towers. The Gauls lost 290,000 troops, to Caesar’s 12,800 casualties.
5wkp TIL that water in Lake Erie replaces itself in 2.6 years while the water in Lake Superior takes 191 years to do the same.
xV9ZD TIL on 1973, due to high prices for beef, fish from a pond in Bowne Park, in Flushing, Queens, New York, ended in kitchen refrigerators in the neighborhood
a8jw9 TIL the Cretaceous-era turtle Kallokibotion bajazidi’s scientific name literally means “beautiful box of Bajazid” and that Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, the paleontologist who named the species, named it that because the shape of the turtle’s shell reminded him of his lover Bajazid Doda’s butt.
6X7m TIL that Reddit owns “IAMA” as a registered trademark