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TIL Adeline and Augusta Van Buren were the first women to travel across the country on solo motorcycles. They made it despite frequently being arrested for wearing pants.

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oR7y7 TIL The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood vessels
J1Ky1 TIL that between one-half and two-thirds of European immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution came as indentured servants
L5L9 TIL - The phrase regarding poisoned Kool-Aid is incorrect, as the mass-suicide was done drinking cyanide-laced cherry-flavored “Flavor Aid”.
7r8ZX In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Thandiwe Mweetwa explains how female lions synchronize their reproductive cycles so they have cubs around the same time.
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