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TIL the Univeristy of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire (Oxford: 1249 AD. Aztecs: 1325 AD)

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oBWyK TIL Mae Jenson, the first black woman astronaut, was inspired to become an astronaut as a child by the black female character Lieutenant Uhura from Star Trek. Nearly 30 years later she became the first real astronaut to appear on Star Trek, in an episode of Star Trek: TNG
80jX TIL the first commercially successful typewriter was built by an arms manufacturer and looked like a sewing machine
KYbKB TIL Ocracoke has a dialect similar to Elizabethan English. Sadly it’s almost extinct.
KY8OR T​IL about James Graham​, ​a 18th century Scottish sexologist, who treated patients at his 'Celestial Bed', a canopied "wonder-working edifice" covered in musical automata, fresh flowers & live turtle dove​s, and which stimulated couples to conceive with oriental fragrances and celestial sounds
78Z4Z TIL that the guppy fish was named after British-born naturalist Lechmere Guppy