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TIL that Lynne Stewart, after being convicted of supporting terrorism, said on the courtroom steps that she could serve her sentence of 28 months “standing on her head,” and then was re-sentenced to 10 years

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wonnY TIL that Abraham Lincoln delivered a captivating speech that was so engrossing that reporters in attendance ceased taking notes, resulting in a loss of the speech's content.
16MZ8 TIL "emotional labor" is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job, including regulating their personas during interactions, suppression of expressions of felt emotions and expression of emotions that aren't actually felt
Jxg8 TIL that for the first time part of a dinosaur skeleton has been discovered in amber with the finding of a tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur
PYALG TIL over 95% of pilots land their planes when conditions dictate that they shouldn’t.
y068 TIL that when the Dutch found the Dodo Birds, they named them “Dodaersen”, which translates to “Fat asses”.