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TIL every stegosaurus toy is probably female
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TIL that starting in 1988, the Harvard Medical School partnered with film and TV studios to insert the concept of the “Designated Driver” into popular consciousness. The project was a huge success.
jOGE
TIL That sailors considered black cats good luck and would use them as “ship’s cats” in hopes of a safe voyage. Wives of fishermen would also keep a black cat at home as it was believed that the cat would allow their husbands to return safely.
M7OOK
TIL that 70 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Joseph and Mary Tape filed suit against a San Francisco school principal and the city's board of education for denying their American-born 8 year-old daughter Mamie an education due to her Chinese heritage. They won.
gpm4
TIL the first left/right ideological debate in American media history is considered to be a pamphlet war in the 1790’s between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke over the topic of the then ongoing French Revolution
nelvo
TIL Mosquitoes pee on you. As a mosquito sucks blood, it needs to get rid of the excess fluid.