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TIL that the heart of Washington DC in the mid-19th Century was a literal open sewer

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KYEXa TIL that Prince is credited for “discovering” Carmen Electra when she began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis where they met and he produced her self-titled debut studio album, released in 1993.
5bMP TIL an intersex athlete representing Poland won the 100 meter dash gold medal in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles and her “sexually ambiguous genitalia” (due to a chromosomal disorder known as mosaicism) was not discovered until the autopsy following her 1980 murder in Cleveland.
5VWYp TIL Mi’kmaq used birch bark canoes or hollowed-out hemlock logs fitted with long wooden runners or “skates” to sprint over the ice and water to Prince Edward Island. The British copied this design in the 1800s for Royal Mail delivery
7rBJb TIL The US census bureau used to use “insane and idiots” and a demographic category
YbZr TIL For 2 years running, Allstate Insurance has declared Bostonians to be the worst drivers in the US.