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TIL Eleanor Roosevelt’s civil rights work angered the Ku Klux Klan so much that they put a $25,000 bounty on her.

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9pkr TIL reading in the dark doesn’t hurt your eyes
vPXP4 TIL that during the American Civil War, agents of the Confederacy attempted to spread yellow fever in the North (using contaminated blankets) in one of the earliest recorded examples of biological warfare.
loWJ7 TIL about 'Franks Sign'. A diagonal crease in an ear lobe, which has been hypothesised to be a predictor of cardiovascular and coronary artery disease in older populations.
EgOe0 TIL high temperature cheese exists and claims to resist melting at temperatures up to 400°F.
vPPE4 TIL there is an enclave of Kentucky cut off entirely from the rest of the state by neighboring Tennessee and Missouri.