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TIL that Teddy Roosevelt advocated women’s suffrage in his senior thesis (1880) making one of his professors say he was too influenced by feeling to be entirely masculine

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Wnm4 TIL in the Netherlands, drivers taking their license exam are required to open the door with their right hand, thereby turning their torso and allowing them to see any oncoming cyclists, hence the term “Dutch reach”
6pWl TIL In c. 552 two Christian monks, after learning Chinese silkworm cultivation, smuggled silkworm eggs on behalf of Byzantine emperor Justinian, resulting in the Empire’s monopoly over the European silk market and forming the foundations of its economy for the next 650 years (until its demise).
0wbRA TIL most Confederate statues were built in the early 1900s, and then again in the 1950s and 60s. Both were times of extreme civil rights tension.
welY TIL facial expressions are a very important part of sign language. Certain mouth and eye movements serve as adjectival or adverbial modifiers.
AD0kd TIL that at the age of 17, Richard Dean Anderson biked 5,641 miles from Minnesota to Alaska.