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TIL Jim Crow was not a real person, but a character played by a white actor performing minstrel routines.

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GLp4 TIL rape is the leading cause of PTSD in female veterans. With the majority of rapes being perpetrated by fellow soldiers.
5VmD9 TIL in 1912, an Irish physicist invented the optophone which was a device that was intended to allow blind people to hear "light". It was adapted to translate written words to sounds.
x61Wb TIL I learned that a cornerstone of the Robert E. Lee Memorial on Monument Avenue in Richmond included a time capsule containing, among other seemingly innocuous items, a picture of Lincoln lying in his coffin.
8ekRb TIL gummy worms were invented in 1981 by Trolli, the German candy company.
5wvB TIL that an Akita dog named Hachiko was so loyal to his owner that he waited for his owner for 9 years until he died. His owner would take the train to work and back, and Hachiko greeted him every time he came back. Even after his owner died of a hemmorhage at work, Hachiko thought he’d come back…