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TIL that Sojourner Truth's first language was Dutch and she retained a hint of a Dutch accent her entire life

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neEYP TIL that the U.S. state of Minnesota is the longest-reigning subnational body in the US/Canada to not vote conservative in a federal election, longer than all other 49 U.S. states and the 10 provinces of Canada
0d0K1 TIL the Expatriation Act of 1907 forced U.S. women to lose their citizenship if they married foreign nationals, automatically adopting their husband's nationality. This discriminatory policy was overturned by the Cable Act of 1922, which restored women’s right to retain their citizenship.
p8d8A TIL that Turkey Vultures have been & sometimes are still used to detect natural gas leaks from pipelines; the odor that gas companies add to gas (so we can detect it since it's odorless) is the same as rotting flesh, which leads the vultures to congregate in the sky in the area of the leak.
DQ0Xj TIL about the Paracas culture, an Andean Society dated 800 BCE – 100 BCE which had Fantastical Textiles, Mummy Bundles, and Geoglyphs predating the Nazca Lines
QNVkE TIL that Thomas Edison not only did not invent the incandescent light, but it had been around in some form for over a century before him. He improved upon inventions which has been invented gradually as early as 1705, and had been in its present form (a glass bulb powered by arc lamp) since 1802.