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TIL May 25 is Towel Day, A Celebration of Douglas Adams

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90Y7 TIL a white woman married an African slave in 1681 Maryland, even though this bound her to serve her husband’s master, and their children would be born into slavery. Their descendants, all slaves, challenged the law, but only her great-great-granddaughter won freedom 100 years later.
rrwW TIL Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same date, 23 April 1616, but not on the same day.
VMdJB TIL Ted Nugent's brother has served as CEO of both Neutrogena and Revlon.
78kZM TIL During the Mexican-American War, Irish-Americans Fought for Mexico in the 'Saint Patrick's Battalion'
M7JWV TIL that the majority of recorded sloth deaths in Costa Rica are due to contact with electrical lines and poachers. Their claws also provide another; when hanging upside-down in a tree, they are held in place by the claws themselves and often do not fall down even if shot from below.