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TIL that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women".

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Ooa4 TIL that Sir Francis Drake invented the early Mojito and it was known as ‘El Draque’. Rum safer to drink than water on ships, limes to tackle scurvy, mint and sugar for taste.
nAQr TIL Arunachalam Murugananthan invented cheap and durable menstruation pads purely because it saddened him that his wife, and women across India, could not afford them. In the process, his wife left him, he nearly lost all of his money and was ostracized by his own community.
GYeAG TIL the Swastika symbol dates to 13000 BC and has been used by many cultures on nearly every continent.
NZyQ TIL that kellogg’s claim that their cereal “improves kids’ cognitive functions by nearly 20%” was based on a study where the control group was given no breakfast, and the improvement was 11%
VM1mm TIL Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. Today, maize accounts for more than half the calories people consume in many African countries. Maize supplanted Africa’s own historical grain crops—sorghum, millet, and rice