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TIL The Romans had so much sex they drove a plant they used for birth control into extinction

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gMbOA TIL in 1920 a young American woman found a financial sponsor though a newspaper, traveled to France, and learned how to become a stunt pilot. She returned to the US as the first woman in the country to hold a pilots license. She was of African and Native American descent.
D1myY TIL about a world view known as Wabi Sabi that appreciates imperfection instead of disparaging it.
d81eB TIL of the Circassian genocide, in which 80-97% of the total population were either killed or expelled by the Russian Empire.
xGbb TIL that because copyrights cannot be infinite, Jack Valenti of the MPAA wanted copyrights extended to “forever less a day”
e0Ykn TIL in the “The Wizard Of Oz” movie, the Tin Man cried chocolate syrup instead of actual machine oil as the oil didn’t show up well on film