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TIL the first black woman to refuse her bus seat to a white person is still alive. Claudette Colvin.

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Egpbx TIL that during WWII, the British built a giant rocket-powered explosive wheel, named Panjandrum, intended to breach enemy beach defenses on D-Day. It was wildly uncontrollable and never saw combat.
MwD0 TIL that oral sex makes pregnancies safer and more successful
wDXo TIL that there is a species of ant that breeds none of it’s own workers, but instead steals eggs from other ant species, forcing them into slavery to work and feed their colony.
LQwdr TIL that elephants can use vibrations they create in the ground by rumbling to communicate with other elephants
a8dAL TIL the 2nd amendment was passed so the federal government could form “well-regulated militias” to put down civilian rebellions - not to protect individuals from government tyranny