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TIL The Spirit Bear survived, in part, because the Native Americans never spoke of them to fur trappers.

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jBoN TIL that the decisive vote to ratify the 19th Amendment came from from a legislator who switched after receiving a telegram from his mother asking him to “be a good boy”.
oRKdY TIL most of the people who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 were girls/women aged 14-23. In addition, the doors were locked (preventing escape), a common practice of the time to reduce theft and breaks by workers. Many women people jumped out of the 8/9/10th floors
XElw6 TIL that anatomically dogs have two arms and two legs - not four legs; the front legs (arms) have wrist joints and are connected to the skeleton by muscle and the back legs have hip joints and knee caps.
bMKE TIL that 30 years ago, the Philadelphia mayor approved a bombing on MOVE activists, killing nearly a dozen people—without repercussion.
LdBv TIL there are more tigers in the state of Texas than all of Asia