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TIL that evil clowns can be hired to stalk your child for a week before their birthday…

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MEgV TIL Some animals, such as penguins and chimpanzees, will prostitute themselves for things like pebbles or meat, respectively
69Eb7 TIL the story of Jonathan Daniels, a minister who saved the life of a civil rights activist by shielding her from a shotgun wielding man. He was killed instantly when the shotgun was fired.
BroJd TIL in 1857, a woman named Hannah Crafts escaped her owner by dressing up as a man and pretending to be white. She later wrote a book called The Bondwoman's Narrative, but didn't publish it. It was found years later in a New Jersey attic and was finally authenticated and published in 2002.
oRnkY TIL that the first Tay Bridge collapsed in a winter gale in December 1879, just nineteen months after opening, plunging a passenger train into the Firth of Tay and killing all 75 people on board
ge1D TIL FDR proposed a “Second Bill of Rights” that named a profitable job, a decent home, adequate medical care, a good education, and more as rights in the now-industrialized US.