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TIL Harriet Tubman drugged crying babies with opium and never lost a slave on 19 trips

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xVJ0D TIL Bill Withers intended to write a third verse to "Ain't no sunshine," but on the advise or others, just decided to repeat 'I know' 26 times.
x6777 TIL Peter the Great instituted a beard tax and forced people to shave who hadn’t paid
yQjWl TIL that the Chinese language has no past, present, or future tenses. The time at which an action is takes place is inferred from context.
98Em TIL The Room (2003) is one of the few movies to pass the Bechdel Test: two female characters talk to eachother about something other than a man.
KObrJ TIL that in 1906, The Daily Mail hired novelist William Le Queux to write a story of the most likely path for a hypothetical German invasion of England. When that path went mostly through areas with low 'Daily Mail' readership, they ordered it rewritten to more directly impact their existing readers