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TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos
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TIL that the first alphabetical English dictionary was written by schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in 1604 and the only surviving copy is found at the Bodleian Library in Oxford
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TIL that engineers from six New York City television stations died in the 9/11 attacks because the transmission facilities were in the building and they had to keep broadcasting despite the ongoing disaster. They kept the stations on the air until the towers' collapse.
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TIL Humans have a genetic predisposition towards open spaces called a “Savannah preference”.
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TIL bacteria that eats and survives on electricity alone , was found in the ocean floor.
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TIL that there's a difference between a panic attack and an anxiety attack.