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TIL Mae Jemison was the first African American woman in space. She also was a doctor in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, started her own business, writes children’s books, has produced and directed modern dance plays, and was also in a few episodes of Star Trek.

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6EJyl TIL of the devastation of Sandby Borg. It was the scene of a massacre in the late 5th century AD. The victims of the massacre were never buried but are found lying as they fell, inside the houses and scattered on the streets of the fort. The site was never occupied again.
lomnN TIL that Nike used sweatshops to make their shoes. They only played $1.25 per day to factory workers and used child labor.
R5DNl TIL that between the years 1400 - 1700, nearly 100,000 people were persecuted for witchcraft in Europe and North America. It is estimated that roughly 60,000 of these people were executed.
WkPWL TIL that Ida Wood wife of the owner of the New York Daily News in the early 1900's was a recluse at the Herald Square Hotel for decades & paid all her bills in cash & never let anyone in until the day her sister died. That's when people found out she was VERY wealthy & wasn't who she said she was.
p8wkO TIL that the FBI found the bodies of the 1964 Freedom Summer murders with the help of a hitman who, along with an agent, beat and kidnapped a KKK member. The Klansman had a gun barrel shoved down his throat as the hitman “started cutting his dick off with a razor” until the location was revealed.