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TIL that the first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman

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QJXDX TIL about Chess Boxing. A combination of four-minute speed chess followed by three-minute boxing. To win, a player should either do a knockout or a checkmate.
Z8kXQ TIL that you are taller in the morning than you are at night. While we are lying down in a resting position, the spine is said to “spread out” or decompress, so when we wake in the morning we are taller after lying in bed all night.
gMaB7 TIL in an effort to demonstrate time dilation, a father and his kids drove three atomic clocks up Mt. Rainier. The measured effect was just over 20 nanoseconds, matching Einstein's theory of relativity.
oZeo TIL there is a crypt sealed in 1940 filled with documents, records, and artifacts that won’t be open till 8113