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TIL after being asked to return to work, a former slave told his former owner to send him $11,680 in back pay for the years he and his family worked for him just to consider returning.

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xbZb TIL Charley Parkhurst - known as one of the best stagecoach drivers on the west coast during the American gold rush was in fact a woman disguised as a man and may have been the first woman to vote in a presidential election in California.
8M0P TIL that not only is the woman in the “We Can Do It” poster not Rosie the Riveter, but the poster was meant to remind employees considering unions that they could be replaced by women, not to inspire women to work.
ePNk TIL that both co-directors of King Kong appeared in the 1933 film as the pilots who finally killed him, because “We should kill the sonofabitch ourselves.”
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