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TIL That There Were American Bison Living in Florida Before European Incursion

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b9y7p TIL Susan B. Anthony, although known for work for women's suffrage, was also an abolitionist: she collected anti-slavery petitions when she was 17, and in her 30's she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
b60Z7 TIL U-570 was a WW2 German U-boat that achieved the unusual distinction of surrendering to an aircraft when a British Hudson Bomber struck her with depth charges in 1941. She was then commissioned into the Royal Navy as the HMS Graph until being decommissioned and wrecked off Scotland in 1944.
v1oMR TIL about the Montreal experiments at McGill University (1957-1964) by psychiatrist Donald Cameron and funded by the CIA. The patients, mainly diagnosed with depression & schizophrenia, expected positive changes but instead suffered severely under conditions not in accordance with human rights.
VMRMp TIL the first thing purchased on the internet was marijuana
BDlr TIL that dextromethorphan (aka Robitussin) is a dissociative drug, and works by acting on the brain to raise the threshold at which it thinks it needs to cough.