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TIL about Absalom Boston who in 1822 became the first African-American to captain and sail a whaleship with an all black crew

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5VlmD TIL: A man, over the phone, convinced various restaurant and grocery managers to conduct strip searches of female staff, or in one case a customer, on behalf of "the police". For at least 12 years, starting in 1992, over 70 such occurrences were reported in 30 U.S. states.
jNOJp TIL that Geneva, the city which hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world, does not have any sister relationships with other cities, declaring itself related to the entire world
NkkQ TIL: 4chan created a feminist programming language called C Plus Equality. Some changes include renaming of “class” to “social_construct”, and the prohibition of “y” variables.
pvXN TIL that Owsley Stanley singlehandedly ignited the psychedelic scene in the sixties by producing over 1 million doses of LSD from a makeshift bathroom laboratory in Berkeley.
m1pvO TIL of Haitian mud cookies or bonbon te. The cookies — made of dirt, butter and salt — hold little nutritional value, but manage to keep dirt poor Haitians alive. Still on a per capita basis, Haiti is richer than countries like Pakistan, Nigeria, or the Congo. The taste of dirt lingers for ho urs.