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TIL Jim Crow wasn't some Democrat politician, its an old term for Black People

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gv88 TIL that scientists from L'Aquila, Italy, were sentenced to six years in prison for failing to warn of an earthquake, despite lacking any reliable means to do so.
9wPEX TIL Edwin Land set out to invent the Polaroid instant camera in 1943 after his young daughter told him it was stupid that he had to go home first, develop the film at a lab and make prints before she could see a photo of herself
RKb8 TIL Aaron Burr believed women to be intellectually equal to men and, upon his election to the New York State Legislature, submitted a bill to allow women to vote.
evvL TIL of the famous 18th-century racehorse named Potoooooooo (Pot-8-Os), whose original name of Potatoes was misspelled on his feed bin by a stable lad. It amused the owner so much that he kept the new name.
P1WAZ TIL about KLM airline deciding the best way to handle a consignment of ground squirrels with incorrect import paperwork was to throw them alive into a shredder they had ready for just such an eventuality