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TIL: A woman was elected to Congress before women had the right to vote.

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4XeZw TIL Tea has been cutlivated for over 6,000 years, since the Neolithic Age
ADjr4 TIL as a young boy Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) had his village occupied by nazis, his family forced to work while living in a 3 by 3 meter mud hut for 21 months, saw his little brother being hanged (but saved by his parents) and his two older siblings deported for slave labor (who escaped).
vDLL TIL: After starting his first hedge fund in 2006, ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli lost a $2.3m lawsuit to Lehman Brothers. Lehman Brothers collapsed before they could collect.
JY6JV TIL: Nintendo coats their new Switch game cartridges with denatonium benzoate (a non-toxic agent) to cause a bitter taste as a deterrent for children putting the games in their mouth
yQJOX TIL that Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time, selling over a 180 Million copies since its 2011 release.