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TIL Susan La Flesche Picotte is widely acknowledged as the first Native American to earn a medical degree. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe

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rNEDd TIL when President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, members of the crowd began beating the latter. The President then told the attackers to "go easy on him, boys." McKinley survived initially but died 8 days later. Leon Czolgosz was executed by electrocution a few months later.
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yQWyp TIL When Edison was 15 he sold newspapers to the railroads, & saved the Station Master’s 2 yr old son from getting hit by a train.The Station Master repaid Edison by training him as a telegraph operator. Edison was adept and sold a better process to W.Union giving him the $ needed to launch his lab.
9YZgB TIL Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery in the American south by mailing himself to freedom. He had friends pack him into a small box, and ship him as cargo from Richmond to Philadelphia. He survived, and went on to work as a magician
mA9x TIL five teens who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist graffiti were sentenced by a judge to read and write reports on 35 books by authors such as Elie Wiesel, Khaled Hosseini, and Maya Angelou. They were also ordered to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.