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TIL that Uncle Tom was actually a very selfless and pious man who was brutally beaten for protecting fellow blacks

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jdPN TIL Déjà vu can be a chronic medical condition. Patients have problems watching TV because everything feels like a rerun and some refuse to see a doctor because they feel like they already have.
GYMX5 TIL it is illegal in Alabama to play cards on Sunday. According to section 13A-12-1 of the Alabama code, those who break this rule shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00, and may also be imprisoned for maximum three months.
VBo5m TIL that Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin both owed the same Tortoise
D1o0P TIL NASA and the U.S. Naval used 11 deaf men from Gallaudet University and their inability to get nauseous to study the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. Their work made substantial contributions to the understanding of motion sickness and adaptation to spaceflight.
Olo1 TIL that “Gravity Falls” from Disney and “Rick and Morty” from Adult Swim had a subtle crossover- When Stan accidentaly throws some objects into a portal in the episode “Society of the Blind Eye”, those objects come out of one of Rick’s portals in “Close Rick-counters of the rick-kind”