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TIL W.E.B. Du Bois was an early supporter of eugeniics in the United States

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QKNk TIL: that backspace is the third most used button on the keyboard
MebnV TIL the first documented use of toilet paper dates back in 589AD in early medieval China. Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while others used their hand when defecating into rivers, using rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stones, sand, moss,water, snow, etc.
NXQ61 TIL, five parrots at a wildlife park have been removed from public display after they started swearing at visitors.
BgZ4r TIL The Dispute between a man and his Ba is an Ancient Egyptian text dating to the Middle Kingdom, presenting a dialogue between a man struggling with the hardships of life and his ba (soul) which dissuades him from committing suicide.
JYMnV TIL that Bill Gates didn't create MS-DOS from scratch. He just bought Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Operating system) for $75,000. Q-DOS was a rip off of CP/M, the standard OS of most PCs in early 1980s. The virtual clone of Q-DOS, MS-DOS was licensed to IBM in a historic deal and the rest is history.