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TIL that an 11 year old accidentally invented popsicle

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peb8 TIL:Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets.Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”
7raDp TIL of the Caterpillar Club, whose members consist solely of people who’ve escaped out of a failing plane and lived. The club was founded by an army test pilot who bailed out of a plane in 1922 and decided that anyone else who’s ever survived this ordeal would become an automatic member.
6E5MZ TIL that the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring African slaves to the US was interviewed in the 1930s
161vV TIL about Oseola McCarty, a washerwoman from Hattiesburg, MS, who became one of the University of Southern Mississippi’s most celebrated benefactors. In 1995, she arranged for $150,000 of her savings to fund scholarships for students in financial need, a surprising amount given her modest earnings.
9wynr TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once met with a German record executive while drunk. He tried to “lighten the mood” by performing a striptease and kissing the executive on the lips. The situation then escalated to him goose-stepping up and down the table and urinating in the exec’s wine.