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TIL that Amy Poehler started a website to encourage girls to change the world by being themselves

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LkmY9 TIL A month-long public hunt of invasive pythons is held on a vast expanse of state forests and other government-owned land north of Everglades national park.
nWe97 TIL that at 14, Robert McGee was tomahawked, shot with a pistol and multiple arrows, and scalped while he was still conscious. He survived.
QN44k TIL that, despite their reputation as outlaws, pirates often operated on democratic principles. Everyone had to vote to make any major decisions, and even captains can be voted out. Pirates even had a system of workers compensation, with the crew maintaining a central fund to help injured pirates.
p86Q4 TIL from 1911 to 1967 the United States Postal Savings System took deposits for consumers and gave up to 2.5% return on savings.
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