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TIL there’s a website containing thousands of first hand accounts of slavery from former slaves. Many (if not most) of the former slaves have nothing but positive things to say about their former masters.

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VBNb4 TIL that there was another Potato related famine that took place in Scotland around the same time as the Great Famine in Ireland.
neZ8b TIL: Before the year 2000 problem, caused by storing only 2 digits for the year, there was the year 1970 problem because only one digit was stored for years from 1960 to 1969
oRyN7 TIL paleobiologist Peter Vrsansky once discovered, in one single spot in Ecuador, "more than 150 cockroach species – more than those currently living in all of Europe"
a8M8L TIL about the Zeitpyramide. An almost ten meter high pyramide being built with a rate of one brick every ten years in the German town Wembing. The construction was undertaken i 1993 and is scheduled for completion in the year 3183.
e0VDk TIL In 1986 a trained analytic philosopher penned an essay on Bullshit. Bullshit attempts to manipulate listener and is indifferent to lies or facts. Bullshit is vague whereas lies are specific and uncoverable.