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TIL The Matrix is a Transgender Coming Out Story

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vPRvx TIL a modern coal powered car was invented by General Motors after gas shortages in the 70s.
XaXR TIL: Richard Johnson, the 9th Vice-President of the USA, literally owned his wife. Slave Julia Chinn was 1/8ths African and was inherited by Johnson after his father’s death. Interracial marriage was illegal, so Johnsonn kept her as his “slave.”
7rj8P TIL that there are commuter trains in Japan with their own zen gardens
LJV9 TIL: 129 years ago today Nellie Bly went undercover at a lunatic asylum to uncover the truth about how people were begin treated
4XYOb TIL Despite widespread belief by the public and many clinical psychologists, repressed memory remains unproven and highly controversial.