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TIL The year Oberlin College first began admitting women, female students were dismissed from classes on Monday to do male students' laundry.

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Qb8M TIL Thomas Jefferson owned a sheep known he called “this abominable animal”. He kept it in front of the White House where it attacked several people and killed a small boy in 1808.
5XRk TIL a 2010 episode of the Saturday morning Batman cartoon was censored because, during a musical number, Catwoman, Black Canary and Huntress mocked the sexual prowess of their male counterparts…including Aquaman’s “little fish.”
l7MV5 TIL that Archimedes of the 3rd century BC calculated the universe’s diameter to be what is now 2-light years in astronomy and discovered the law of exponent while trying to name numbers that are significantly higher than 10,000^2 (myriad myriads)
oRrwo TIL Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails one free, high-quality book every month to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income.
YXxx TIL that early balloons were made from animal intestines.