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TIL Some Native American tribes owned Slaves.
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TIL early in American football, one coach had football-shaped leather patches sewn onto his team’s jerseys creating the illusion of a field full of ball carriers. When this trick was tried against Harvard, they countered by painting all the balls crimson, making them invisible against their jerseys
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TIL about Arunachalam Muruganantham, who made a low cost machine to produce affordable sanitary pads
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TIL about the uncanny valley, which describes the unsettling feeling caused by a robot or computer generated model that looks almost human but is not convincing enough to look like an actual human
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TIL: After annexing Crimea in 2014, Russia began planning construction on the longest bridge in Europe, a 19km road and rail bridge connecting Crimea with mainland Russia. Such a bridge had been considered since 1903, it was completed in 2018.
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TIL it takes the average “internet user” 6:06 minutes to Bust a Nut