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TIL the US got rid of seasonal clock changes in the 70s and everyone hated it and quickly went back to the clock changes.

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QZbe TIL that in 1848 light-skinned slave Ellen Craft, unable to travel with him as a woman, escaped with her dark-skinned husband by pretending to be both a white man and her husband’s owner. They traveled openly, first class, a thousand miles north from Georgia to freedom.
9wJrX TIL in 1907 Kodak introduced real photo postcards, a service that enabled customers to make postcards from any photo they took. As photos at the time were a luxury for many, RPPC helped allow people to share images from their daily lives with family and friends.
OGn6 TIL That if you received a Mole of pennies at birth and spent 1 million dollars a second until you were 100, you would still have more than 99.99% of your money in the bank.
KOKp6 TIL Edward Bowen and his wife did not board the Lusitania after reading Germany’s warning in the newspaper that Germany would sink the ship. They were the only two that cancelled their plans
oGR7 TIL that Leonardo da Vinci created plans for a “mechanized knight,” - a robot-like creation reliant on a system of pulleys. When these plans were found almost 500 years later and built according to Leonardo’s specifications, the design worked perfectly.