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TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos

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Wk8vY 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
1ajlV 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.
JNL1 TIL Humans have a genetic predisposition towards open spaces called a “Savannah preference”.
OA14 TIL bacteria that eats and survives on electricity alone , was found in the ocean floor.
mxwyp TIL that there's a difference between a panic attack and an anxiety attack.