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TIL Sacagawea was kidnapped at 12, sold as a slave and forced into marriage at 13, and was 15 years old and 6 months pregnant when she joined Lewis & Clark’s expedition.

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a8rNo TIL between 1865-1896 —a.k.a. “The Gilded Age” — Americans were less healthy and lived shorter lifespans than the generation before them.
E1D7w TIL on March 20, 2007, David Letterman became ill less than an hour before his show was to start. Adam Sandler, who was to be one of his guests that night, filled in for him and hosted the whole show
xk65 TIL Pepsi ran an advertisement promising a Harrier jet to anyone who collected 7,000,000 Pepsi Points, a gag that backfired when a participant attempted to take advantage of the ability to buy additional points for 10 cents each to claim a jet for $700,000.
b6MeZ TIL that the German grocery chain, Lidl, opened a store in Dublin and used glass floor panels to display both 11th and 18th century archaeological ruins.
XGn8 TIL after a female pedestrian in his community was killed by a red-light runner, a 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. He smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop.