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TIL that the European colonial powers used indentured workers from India as cheap labor after the end of slavery

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WjKB TIL that “spaghetti” is actually the plural form of the word. An individual strand is referred to as a “spaghetto”
7MKO TIL Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant who speaks 10 languages and has the rare capability to explain how his brain works, says numbers have shape, color, and texture. 289 is ugly, 333 attractive, and pi is beautiful.
7Z9Z TIL your whole body aches when you have the flu because your immune system dilates all of your blood vessels and makes your muscles constantly contract
oBb7E TIL Muhammad Ali could punch at 4/100 of a second, which is basically how quick you blink
ZbDv TIL while in college during the Prohibition era, Dr. Seuss was caught drinking gin with friends in his dorm room. He was forced to write under a pen-name to dodge his ban from writing for the school’s humor magazine. Thus, Theodore Geisel chose his now-legendary pseudonym.