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TIL that, in the U.S.A., corporate personhood was established in 1819, which means that corporations got to be people before black people did.

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nexW TIL the drug Scopolamine, aka “The Devil’s Breath,” is a substance so intense that it renders a person incapable of exercising free will.
6Oa7 TIL of Lafayette, a Frenchman from the revolutionary war who later toasted “to the perpetual union of the united states. it has always served us in times of storm. one day it will save the world”. American troops sent to France in world war 1 visited the grave and said “Lafayette, we are here”
ANrb4 TIL: The baritone sarrusophone is sometimes nicknamed the "combat bassoon."
x6y90 TIL The Mercury astronaut candidate examinations involves sensory deprivation test of you being placed in a circular 8 foot deep tank of body temperature water without hallucinating. The normal reaction is for the subconscious mind to take over and one lapses into uncontrollable hallucinations
8a8YZ TIL that the largest lake in the world is also the oldest: Lake Baikal, Siberia. It contains 20% of the Earth's fresh surface water, and is 25 million years old.