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TIL There’s a kind of turtle with a green punk hairstyle

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ZpJgp TIL Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's enslaved underage mistress, was also his wife's half sister
mmNR TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “…Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”
lY4A TIL the first official motor vehicle “speeding” ticket was handed out in the UK, when a gentleman named Walter Arnold was caught rocketing down the road at the breakneck speed of… 8 MPH.
0wKoR TIL Olive Oatman was captured in 1851 by Native Americans who slaughtered most of her family. She eventually integrated into a Mohave tribe and was given tattoos to enter the afterlife. Settlers traded to "free" her in 1857. She was the first tattooed American woman; her story remains mysterious.
ZOMB TIL that in 2006, convicted murderers in a Swedish prison was forgotten to be locked up at night so they went to the kitchen and made a delicious chocolate cake and watched ”The Hot Chick” on tv.