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TIL that Diana Ross's sister is a trailblazer in medicine. Barbara Ross-Lee was one of the few African-American women in a field dominated by white males in the 1970s and became the first African-American woman to lead a U.S medical school.

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4koK6 TIL the fastest internet speed ever recorded was 319 terabits per second (Tbps) achieved in June 2021. This speed is about 7.6 million times faster than the average home internet speed in the US, and would allow for the download of almost 80,000 movies in a single second.
rEJ1 TIL American poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson was rejected by both the white and the black society because white people found she was “too black” and black people found she was “too white”.
Z8DYa TIL Hitler used a propaganda technique called the "Big lie". The use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously"
XE6DR TIL of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who in 1864 became the first African-American woman to become a physician in the United States. After the American Civil War ended in 1864 she moved from Boston to Virginia to provide medical care to freed slaves.
GaAJ TIL A week’s worth of the New York Times contains more information than the average seventeenth century citizen encountered in a lifetime.