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TIL Aaron Burr believed women to be intellectually equal to men and, upon his election to the New York State Legislature, submitted a bill to allow women to vote.

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VB5e4 TIL Sweden had a nuclear weapons research program and could have tested their own bomb.
R50Lj TIL that the extreme lifelong behavioral problems of Nancy Spungen (gf of Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols) are thought to be caused by brain damage via birth asphyxia from umbilical cord wrapped around her neck
xVwvB TIL despite having PTSD after being buried alive by a bomb, & having a doctor's testimony that he'd been unfit to command, Eric Poole became the first commissioned officer to be executed by British military authority in WW1, after deserting
LbpQ TIL Nien Nunb, a minor character in “Return of the Jedi,” caused Kenyan audiences to burst into laughter after they realized he spoke Kikuyu, the language of Kenya’s majority tribe.
QlO9 TIL- An unknown American soldier escaped from a Japanese massacre in 1941 and carved it into a rock before being caught, and beheaded