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TIL that between 1854 and 1921 in the US, over 250,000 children were transported on "Orphan Trains" to be adopted by new families; many found new homes, but, sadly, sometimes the "adoptions" were little more than auctions and the children pressed into forced farm labor.

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WkyW4 TIL: Ozzy Osbourne from Black Sabbath once fell asleep during a driving test, waking up to a note saying 'you have failed'. He passed in 2009, age 60, on his 19th attempt.
OovNg TIL the integral of the secant formula, important in cartography, has been found accidentally when a mathematician was running through numerical approximations known at the time and recognized they matched ln(|tan(phi/2 + pi/4)|). It took 28 more years for someone find a formal proof
4XQdJ TIL The Pirate voice. comes from one person, from Robert Newton's performance in Treasure Island in 1950, an exaggeration of his Cornwall accent.
KXKa TIL that a study conducted by a Swiss university showed that stockbrokers are more reckless and manipulative than diagnosed psychopaths.
oRDNr TIL Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent