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TIL more than 100 Greenlandic inuit women have reported getting birth control involuntarily

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R7eLl TIL William Henry Sheppard, one of the first Black American missionaries to Africa, helped to expose King Leopold’s atrocities in the Belgian Congo to the world
PYQ5g TIL that Christopher Lee was once driving through Italy with his wife when their car had a puncture. He went for help, but fell into a ditch and got covered in mud. He reached a house and knocked on the door. The owner opened it, shrieked and fainted. They’d seen a Dracula film the night before.
wLkA8 TIL of Colonel Johnson who publicly ate a basket of tomatoes at the Old Salem County Courthouse in 1820 to demonstrate that they were not poisonous, as was supposedly commonly thought at the time.
DQ9ZY TIL of Masabumi Hosono, who was the only Japanese passenger on the Titanic. While he survived, he was severely condemned in the United States and Japan. His account of the sinking of Titanic remains the only document to be written on Titanic stationery
ARE7 TIL that following her coronation in 1838, 18 year old Queen Victoria returned home to Buckingham Palace and raced upstairs to give her favorite spaniel, Dash, his usual bath.