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TIL Yoga Jones, from Orange is the New Black, was the voice of Patti Mayonnaise.

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j61Nn TIL that after becoming the first Black woman to argue at the U.S. Supreme Court, and winning 9 of 10 landmark civil rights cases, Constance Baker Motley became a U.S. Judicial Court judge and handed down a decision giving women sports reporters equal access to Major League Baseball locker rooms.
YKG7 TIL the oldest piece of paper in the world was found in China and dates back to the second or first century B.C. Paper was so durable, it was sometimes used for clothing and even light body armor.
nW7vr TIL that Xerox built the first personal computer with a mouse-based graphical user interface (GUI) in 1973, 10 years before anyone else. But they couldn't see any reason why anyone would want a PC so they didn't market it
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