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TIL Henrietta Wood who was enslaved in the American South until her owner, Jane Cirode, took her to Ohio in 1844. After being re-enslaved in 1853, Wood successfully sued her captor, Zebulon Ward, in 1869 and was awarded $2,500 – the largest slavery restitution in U. S. history.

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9wOXp TIL Richard Feynman taught a two-year introductory physics course at Caltech from 1961 to 1963 and his original students had no textbook—their only written materials were created "on the fly". These notes were later published and used as the introductory physics textbook for nearly two decades
QNVGM TIL China made it illegal to neglect your aging parents—courts can now force you to visit or face jail.
6EGbw TIL in 1986, the store chain Silo advertised a stereo as costing “299 bananas”, with “bananas” being a slang word for “dollars”. However, 32 people legally bought the stereos with 299 banana fruits.
eMbE TIL Ontario, a province in Canada has a apology act- “apologies do not constitute an admission of fault”
BgZxk TIL sportswriter Henry Chadwick (b. 1824), the "Father of Baseball" is credited with creating "K" as the designation for a strikeout. K is the middle sound of the word "strikeout", and other potential letters (S, T, R, I) already had meanings in baseball.