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TIL the county of Multnomah created a “grounding space for black, indigenous, and people of color” to share, heal, and connect in an area not “dominated by whiteness”

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lvDG TIL in the Korean war US officer Dave Teich disobeyed orders and took 4 tanks to save 65 men from 300k Chinese troops attacking their position.
OoB6e TIL that despite making dozens of recordings of his voice on wax cylinders, no known recordings of Mark Twain's voice are known to have survived.
grrWX TIL in the Industrial Age, some foods were colored with poisonous things like various colors of lead and copper salts. Food coloring was used to hide bad quality and to imitate other foods as well. This made food poisoning common during this time.
7rGkp TIL that Matt Patricia is the only rocket scientist coaching in the NFL. Before coaching, he was a working aeronautical engineer who graduated from RPI: a school whose fight song includes "sin", "cosine" and "tangent", as well as six digits of pi.
gMgdD TIL that an 81 year old man called Giles Corey, accused of being a wizard in 1692, was the only man in American history to be subjected to death by pressing in an attempt to get him to submit to trial by jury. It is said that his response to the torture was to tell them to add 'more weight.'