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TIL if you don’t identify as an “extrovert” or “introvert,” you might be an “ambivert.” An ambivert is moderately comfortable with groups and social interaction, but also relishes time alone, away from a crowd.

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VMxV8 TIL about Mitchelville. A self governing American town where newly freed slaves developed and thrived as the first free black town after the Civil War.
E1WYd TIL in 1932 both Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower used six M1917 tanks and an infantry division to run over and drive out WW1 veterans who occupied DC. They were demanding to be paid their bonus they received in 1924 but which could not be redeemed until 1948.
Z80aa TIL about Italian scientist Francesco Redi who, in 1668, proved that maggots come from the eggs of flies. At the time, prevailing wisdom was that maggots arose spontaneously from rotting meat.
ne8nP TIL that the Inquisition still officially exists, but in 1965 was renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
170O TIL Attila the Hun’s sword, or the Sword of Mars was said to have been forged from the iron of a meteor and struck by lightning, given the blessing of Mars.