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DQoQr TIL A Japanese researcher took his own life after his research revealed the presence of Fireblight in native pear trees, resulting in a government cover-up and him being blamed by farmers for their lost revenue
XERER TIL, the author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, is most responsible for the creation of Thanksgiving being a national holiday.
NMYQ TIL Einstein proved that past events are not knowable with certainty [PDF]
dDD8d TIL in 1955, actor Ray Liotta was adopted from an orphanage at the age of six months. He hired a private detective to locate his biological mother in the 2000s, and learned that he had one biological sister, one biological half-brother, and five biological half-sisters.
E1Bvp TIL that Abigail Adams, who believed slavery was evil and antithetical to democracy, wrote on the eve of the Revolutionary War, that she doubted her fellow Americans had the "passion for liberty" they claimed to have, given how they "deprived their fellow creatures" of freedom.