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TIL side saddle horseback riding was started ‘as a way for women to ride horses, while protecting their virginity and modesty’

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AD94B TIL A Colombian drug cartel put a $70,000 bounty on a police dog because it sniffed out almost 10 tons of drugs in 300+ operations, leading to 245 arrests.
QLrX TIL The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family’s 400 year old sword in apology
l7vwB TIL About the creaky voice accent which became more common in the speech of young female speakers of American English in the early 21st century; college-age Americans perceived female creaky voice as "hesitant, nonaggressive, and informal but also educated, urban-oriented, and upwardly mobile."
m1jAR TIL that from 1742 to 1752 the city of Tallin, Estonia, was governed by a former African slave named Abram Gannibal. His grandson, Alexander Pushkin, is considered to be the father of the Russian literature and the greatest Russian poet. Abram's son Ivan Gannibal founded Kherson, Ukraine
5YklR TIL a statue of William Shakespeare in Central Park was paid for with funds raised by John Wilkes Booth