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TIL The Black Panthers started what later became U.S.'s School Breakfast Program which feeds nearly 13 million students every day.

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R0vw TIL There was an Attorney General that was a sole hold-out that refused to go along with a settlement that would shield the banks from the mortgage fiasco lawsuits. NY States Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman.
bN7j Til that some christian groups criticized Dungeons and Dragons for promoting the veneration of demons, murder, and satanism, even though the creator of D&D was a committed christian.
o058 TIL Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer scientist because her mom didn’t want her ending up a sex fiend like her father.
m4BR TIL that the webcam was invented so that Computer Scientists at Cambridge University could see whether the coffee pot was full or not from different rooms.
L7vr TIL In 1904 a woman borrowed $5 million dollars from US Banks because people thought she was Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate child. She wasn’t.