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TIL for 3 decades legendary female pro wrestler The Fabulous Moolah effectively controlled most of the female wrestling in the US, would allegedly sexually and financially exploit the women she managed, and sabotaged any female wrestler who could pose the threat of taking her place professionally.

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XaXR TIL: Richard Johnson, the 9th Vice-President of the USA, literally owned his wife. Slave Julia Chinn was 1/8ths African and was inherited by Johnson after his father’s death. Interracial marriage was illegal, so Johnsonn kept her as his “slave.”
4kb6g TIL The British children's show Zzzap was designed with deaf children in mind, with the show being mostly visual, with sound only used for music and effects. The audience in "The Handymen" segments would also often sign clapping instead of actually clapping.
OvNR TIL in 2001, a ten-year-old named Laura Buxton, released a balloon with her name and address in the hope of finding a pen pal. The balloon traveled 140 miles before coming down and was found by an almost-ten-year old also named Laura Buxton. They share a number of other similarities.
D1NVp TIL that Harriet Tubman once pretended to read a newspaper on a train to avoid being recognised by a former master. Because the man knew Harriet was illiterate, he ignored the black woman reading on the train.
wPpo TIL in the book ‘Stuart Little’, Stuart was born from his human mother as a mouse, rather than adopted, as the movie adaptation depicted.