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TIL Kate Winslet Keeps Her Oscar in the Bathroom so that her guests can play around and make speeches in the mirror

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rR8Dy TIL that Benkos Bioho, an African king that was captured and taken to South America, helped create a way to use braids to convey maps and messages. This stopped his captors from finding out his and his peers' plans. Some braids represented escape and certain roads while others held gold and seeds.
ZpYYo TIL the little “pocket” in women’s underwear is called a “Panty Gusset”.
yVgge TIL that the first English slave trading expedition was that of John Hawkins in 1562
QJ67L TIL that the "Candy bar protest", also known as "the 5 cent chocolate war", "the 5 cent war", and "the chocolate candy bar strike", was a short-lived 1947 protest by Canadian children over the increase in price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents.
VMRyQ TIL John D Rockefeller Jr was forced to testify to the Commission of Industrial Relations for his role in (and blamed in the media for masterminding) the 1913 Ludlow Massacre where 21 people including women and children were killed in an attack on a camp of striking coal workers.