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TIL In 1854, Clarissa Davis, an enslaved woman, escaped from Virginia by disguising herself as a man and hiding in a box near a steamship furnace. After 75 days in hiding, she endured the perilous journey to Philadelphia with help from an ally onboard. She was later assisted and able met her family.

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rRn61 TIL that DNA companies to that analyze your DNA to find where your local origins are from, are just guesses at best. Identical twins who sent their probes in, didn’t get same results. Experts in this video state that those analysis are only a product for entertainment with low accuracy.
Z8AeB TIL Fred Astaire started skateboarding in his 70's, got a lifetime membership to the Nat'l Skateboard Society, and broke his wrist skateboarding at age 78.
Omka TIL that the M&M feinting Santa commercial has been airing for 20 years. The stuntman who plays Santa receives $5,000 to $10,000 for it each year.
8a4VG TIL: When Lawrence of Arabia was killed in a motorcycle accident in May 1935, his doctor, Hugh Cairns, realized that his life might have been saved had Lawrence been wearing a helmet. Cairns introduced crash helmets for military dispatch riders, thereby reducing fatalities by 50%.
5Yewp TIL of Punch and Judy, a popular puppet show from the 1600s. In the show, Punch usually ends up killing his baby, his wife, a policeman, the devil and a variety of other characters by beating them with his ‘slapstick’. The phrase “pleased as punch” comes from Punch’s gleeful self-satisfaction.