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TIL that an escaped slave of George Washington, Oney Judge lived her life as a fugitive in New Hampshire and provided historians the most detailed account of slavery at Mount Vernon

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b95oE TIL that for decades universities and automobile manufacturers have used human cadavers to get realistic crash test results.
V59Q TIL Liam Neeson shot The Grey in -20 degree temperatures. When his face is beet red, it’s not because he’s wearing makeup.
4aaX TIL a tomato plant was found on the 40 year old volcanic island, Surtsey. Scientists were boggled as to how it got there. Turns out, it was from a scientist taking a dump, subsequently growing the plant.
XVp6 TIL that when the Knights Templar were dissolved across Europe in the 14th century, the Portuguese branch simply changed its name to the Order of Christ and survives to this day.
71XO TIL: In a 2012 British random sampling of 68 recent convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 59 of the offenders were Pakistani men, that is approximately 87%.