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TIL Harriet Tubman lead a military operation to free slaves during the civil war

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yQagl TIL in 2000, Canadian opposition leader Stockwell Day proposed referendums on internet petitions if they reached 350,000 signatures - or about 3% of the population. A comedian proposed that Stockwell Day legally change his first name to Doris. It got over 370,000 signatures
97oD TIL that Thomas Peterffy was told by NASDAQ that his algorithmic trading was illegal because it lacked a keyboard so he created a robot with fingers to type all trades on the keyboard which made it legal - “the robot typed so fast it sounded like a machine gun.”
NXp9N TIL that if you laid out an adult's circulatory system, the blood vessels would total over 60,000 miles. That equals more than twice around the world.
144D TIL Ernesto Miranda, well known for the Supreme Court case establishing “Miranda Rights”, was stabbed to death 10 years later by a man who exercised those rights and was never charged with the murder.
W7V5A TIL: Kobe Bryant's "33" High School basketball jersey was stolen in 2017 and sold to a collector in China who returned it after suspecting it was stolen.