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TIL Robin Hood was called to be removed from Indiana textbooks for being communist

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bAY0 TIL that composer Rossini was so talented/lazy that it was easier for him to write a new composition than to pick it up from the floor.
16pLX TIL that the first woman to sail around the globe was French botanist Jeanne Baret. She had to disguise herself as a man, and accompanied her collaborator (and secret lover) Phillibert Commerson on the Bougainville expedition. Together they discovered hundreds of new plants.
OblR TIL cat’s kidneys are so efficient it can survive on a diet consisting only of meat, with no additional water, and can even hydrate by drinking seawater.
m100R TIL Mail carriers can be fired for not delivering junk mail.
6EDPm TIL more than half the US states have laws requiring employers to give people time off to vote. Some states even require the employer to pay your wages while you're voting!