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TIL Harriet Tubman, a major American abolitionist and former slave, was gifted a silk/linen lace shawl by Queen Victoria around 1897

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wyrP TIL That out of the 238 years that the United States of America has been a nation, 216 of those years has been in conflict or war, which is about 90% of the time.
eodE TIL that Darwin dedicated 40 years of his life to studying on earthworms.To figure out how their auditory system worked,he would play piano for them.
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