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TIL Abraham Lincoln tried multiple times to remove all Africans from mainland America and was described as “entirely devoted to the welfare of white men” by prominent abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass.

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J1ONl TIL There is a Guinness world record for the longest amount of time needed to create an official government. It is held by Belgium. It took Belgian politicians 541 days to form an official government.
l7EEa TIL When Shannon Lucid arrived on Mir space station, the deputy commander noted that fans will be taken care because women love to clean. Also, her male cosmonaut crew mates will be on their best behavior and pay more attention to the way they behave, they act and they speak when a lady is on board
0wBLN TIL of Laura Bassi, the first woman to have a doctorate in science. She was privately tutored till she was 20, when the archbishop of Bologna noticed her talent and became her patron. She earned her doctorate at 21 by defending 49 theses before professors of the University of Bologna.
XEMwE TIL On average, genetic similarity between any two humans is 99.9%. There is about 2–3 times more genetic diversity within the wild chimpanzee population, than in the entire human gene pool.
kOeMe TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.