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[TIL] That Robert E. Lee was against slavery.
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TIL In 1988, Ken Griffey Jr attempted suicide by swallowing 277 aspirin pills. On his failed attempt, Griffey, Jr. stated, “It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there. I got depressed. I got angry. I didn’t want to live.”
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TIL the term "skunkworks" does not mean what I thought it meant. It does NOT mean a project with no upper management support, but rather it's when a small team, seaparate team is formed to develop a particular thing. The team itself is usually well funded but outside organisational bureaucracy.
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TIL that the biggest amount of gold on earth is stored in its core and if extracted, it could cover the surface in a knee-high level.
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TIL a victim of the SS Atlantic wreck was found to be a woman disguised as a man. A great favorite among her shipmates, one remarked "I didn't know Bill was a woman. He took his grog as regular as any of us, & was always begging or stealing tobacco. He was a good fellow, & I'm sorry he was a woman."
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TIL In 1993, 16-year-old Keron Thomas posed as a train conductor and drove an A train for three hours and safely delivered passengers to their destinations before he accidentally triggered an emergency brake on a fast curve.