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TIL learned that the treadmill was designed as a torture device for prisoners.

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VlaQ TIL At Harvard, Neil Degrasse Tyson was criticized by a fellow African American economist major who told him that “Blacks in America do not have the luxury of your intellectual talents being spent on astrophysics”.
8ax4a TIL that archeologist Virginia Steen-McIntyre dated a human settlement in Hueyatlaco Mexico to 250,000 BCE some 200,000+ years before most other estimates. Despite the fact that she confirmed this date through four different scientific tests, her research has remained not widely accepted.
rRLjw TIL-"Sell or Starve" Act of 1877. After defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Congress attached, what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider, to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 that cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the US
D11nP TIL about Gwynplaine, as played by Conrad Veidt (The Man Who Laughs - 1928), who inspired the creation of The Joker.
rBQW TIL Dum Dum “mystery flavors” are created when the end of one batch meets the beginning of the next batch.