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TIL - Vermont abolished slavery in 1777, while it was still independent, and when it joined the United States as the 14th state in 1791 it was the first state to join untainted by slavery.

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MEoW TIL severing the limb of a Bloodwood tree triggers the same type of response you’d see if you severed a human limb. The damage causes the release of a deep crimson sap that looks alarmingly like human blood; its sole purpose is to coagulate and seal wounds, but has many other medical uses as well.
eaMJ TIL on January 15, 1919, in Boston a large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore. Residents claimed that on hot summer days, the area still smells of molasses.
V0KB TIL An adult human is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that’s (7 octillion) atoms.
neX5G Til that Harvard student and seminarian Jonathan Daniels traveled to the south to aid the civil rights movement. He was walking with a black girl when a deputy pointed his shotgun at her. Daniels jumped in front of her, sacrificing his life so that she could live.
5Vo5P TIL scientists didn’t use real blood to test absorbency of menstrual products, such as pads, until 2023. Up until then, a saline solution was the default method.