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TIL Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper company for lacking creativity.

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69gg8 TIL there are 2 different types of spiders generally referred to as ‘Daddy Long Legs’ in North America & neither are, in fact, poisonous to humans as some say
GPP4 TIL women are about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.
AYvd TIL That the Largest Mass Execution in U.S. History was Authorized by President Lincoln, Killing 38 Native Americans at Mankato, Minnesota, 1862.
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d8g98 TIL during the early 1900s, hat pins were used by women for self-defense; Mademoiselle Gelas even wrote a manual advising a combination of jiu-jitsu, hatpin stabbing and umbrella work to fend off men.