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TIL The bible says its required to cancel all debts after 7 years.

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ZL9G TIL Richard Nixon ended the draft, founded the EPA and OSHA, signed Title IX, was a proponent of the 26th Amendment, dedicated $100 million to the War on Cancer project, and became the first American President to give Native Americans the right to tribal self-determination.
mxvbR TIL a 12-year-old slave named Edmond Albius revolutionized vanilla by developing a novel pollinization technique
D6eY TIL People are training rats to detect landmines. The rats are too light to set the mines off and can smell the explosive compound extremely well. The rats are very fast and can clear an area 3 times faster than use of electronic mine sweepers and with higher accuracy.
kJJMg TIL that by 1935 the life expectancy of an S&P 500 company was 90 years. By 2010, it was only 14 years and shrinking
WPbB TIL the Cofounder of Firefox created JavaScript and is the CEO of a new company web browser called Brave which blocks ALL ads including youtube ads before & in the middle of the videos