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TIL: Mary Bowser, a freed slave with a Quaker education and a photographic memory, posed as a slow witted slave to spy for the Union in Confederate president Jefferson Davis’ household through much of the Civil War.

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eb66 TIL of a french scientist who accidentally killed 45% of the rabbits in europe because he was tired of rabbits eating his garden.
R7K04 TIL that if Antarctica were a country it would be the second largest in the world, significantly bigger than #3 Canada
0d885 TIL Al Cowlings, the man who drove the famous white Bronco in the O.J. Simpson police chase, opened a chatline during the trial for the public to ask him questions about anything except the murders and his friend O.J.'s trial.
EgeLw TIL Stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one
1oyd TIL the longest ever recorded sniper kill was shot from 2,475 meters or 1.54 miles away by British CoH Craig Harrison. The bullet took over 6 seconds to reach its target and fell about 400 feet.