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TIL: Benfords law is a logarithmic graph that can be found anywhere in the world. The IRS even uses it to detect tax fraud.

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GY75J TIL of Bass Reeves, the first black U.S marshal west of the Mississippi River. At the end of his career in 1907 at the age of 70, he had arrested over 3000 felons and shot and killed 14 outlaws.
p1K4 TIL the Skunk Cabbage is one of a few plants that generates its own heat, 20 degrees Celsius/36 degrees Fahrenheit on average, above the outside air temperature. This allows the plant to melt through the snow and flower while snow is still on the ground.
ENaV TIL that in 1937 the Nazis held an exhibition of art you should dislike (“Degenerate Art”), the work of artists such as Ernst, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Picasso.
VBVmk TIL that at age 8, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured by the Comanche tribe and adopted into their way of life, ultimately having 3 children with a chief, before being recaptured at age 33. She never fully reassimilated, having escaped once before being returned again.
9YMyX TIL that the US had a lesbian First Lady in 1885-1886. She was Rose Cleveland--Grover Cleveland's youngest sister and Acting US First Lady before Grover married in 1886. She was also a lesbian & had a relationship with a wealthy widow, Evangeline Marrs Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence.