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TIL that the Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave uprising.

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M7NRB TIL About the Personalized Onco Genomics (POG) trials. Started in 2012, doctors have been using patients' DNA to find personalized treatments to fight cancer.
gMGJD TIL Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He was frustrated with the fact that he had to go and ask his coworkers what data was on their computer so he can add it to his computer which led to him creating an application that became the world wide Web.
oBeAR TIL: That height has one of the strongest direct correlations to income in Business, with even age gender and weight having a lesser effect
4Xpo6 TIL that Roman emperor Vespasian refused to make use of a labour-saving machine because he didn't want the day labourers heavily dependent on building projects to loose their livelihoods.
4XX0a TIL: The Supreme Court found in Bounds v. Smith that if prisoners don't have access to a legal professional, they are required to have access to a legal library.