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TIL of Dr. Mary Walker, an abolitionist, suffragist, surgeon, and the only female Medal of Honor recipient. She advocated for women to wear what they wanted. She’d often get arrested for wearing men's clothes, though she insisted "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes."

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mxWZp TIL that a teenager fooled an entire school, multiple police officers, and a car dealership that he was the youngest State Representative ever. He was escorted to the school, given a tour, and spoke to the high school students about being involved in politics.
k9lB TIL the phrase “Don’t mess with Texas” has nothing to do with Texan toughness, but was invented by the Texas Department of Transportation to fight littering
VM67G TIL The north pole of the planet is actually a magnetic south pole right now, but it is still referred to as “magnetic north” to correspond with our geographic measurements
9W4m TIL that “if an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple.”
vPek4 TIL: The Epic of Gilgamesh – written 700 BCE – resembles various themes, plot elements, and characters from the Hebrew Bible. Notably, the accounts of the Garden of Eden, the advice from Ecclesiastes, and the Genesis flood narrative.