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TIL that Sojourner Truth's famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman", was altered by a white abolitionist, who rewrote her speech for publication in a stereotypical "southern black slave dialect". Truth actually grew up speaking Dutch and took pride in her "fairly correct English"

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d84X8 TIL in 1987, in Brazil, a ship carrying 22tons of weed in 3lb cans dumped all of it in the sea after being chased by Brazilian authorities. The cans were carried to the coastline by the tides, and most ended up being found (and used) by locals. This event came to be known as "The Summer of the Cans"
nlMb TIL in 2008 Japanese researchers discovered a protein which helps carry electrical impulses from the eye to the brain, the researchers named it pikachurin in reference to the electric-type pokemon named pikachu
QJljk TIL A Female Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect In The 1800s, But Didn’t Get the Credit Due to Sexism
p8v14 TIL that when you listen to someone speak, you are hearing an uninterrupted stream of sound called continuous speech--the pauses between words are all in your head.
x9Zk TIL: It takes a 10-person team to unlock the 22-ton bank vault at Fort Knox - still the most impenetrable vault in the world. Roughly 3% of all the gold ever refined in human history is stored there.