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TIL of Republican Congress member Thaddeus Steven who wanted to exile former slave owners and redistribute their land among slaves and farmers

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aQwb TIL that Darwin was proven wrong by astronauts: he believed plant roots grow sideways because of gravity, but plants grown on the ISS also have skewed roots
oBLeK TIL Saccorhytus coronarius, a 535-million year old sea creature, is also the earliest known ancestor of humans.
NvWM TIL Sony has a patent on making viewers yell product names out loud to end TV ads
x69ND TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that it would take humans 1 to 10 million years to perfect a flying machine. The Wright Brothers did it 69 days later.
nekmo TIL former actor Jake Lloyd, the man who played young Anakin in The Phantom Menace, was bullied so much for his role he quit acting and destroyed his Star Wars merch. Later he would be arrested for reckless driving without a license and has been transferred to a psych facility for schizophrenia.