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TIL a 12-year-old slave named Edmond Albius revolutionized vanilla by developing a novel pollinization technique

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neBad TIL That Abraham Lincoln once pardoned a man for bestiality because of his exemplary behavior in prison.
78py7 TIL in 1985, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) likely helped to facilitate the prison escape of eventual Liberian leader and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor.
ANxJn TIL an analysis of the judges at the California State Fair wine competition (the oldest in North America) found that they "constantly" contradicted themselves; only about one in ten regularly rated the same wine in a similar manner each time.
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VbBk TIL there was a Native American warrior named Osh-Tisch (Finds Them and Kills them) who was born a biological male but lived and dressed as a woman, a practice known as “badé” in Crow.