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TIL that Bessie Coleman was not only the first African-American woman to hold a pilot's licence, but also the first Native American to do so.

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xAM5 TIL that there is a man who stomped on someone’s face while wearing Air Jordans. He is suing NIKE for failure to warn him that they could be considered dangerous weapons.
MwWb TIL medical patients in the US can speak an average of 12 seconds before being interrupted by a resident of the office. Also, ptients are only able to complete 1 out of every 4 statements uninterrupted.
aw5eo TIL that Americans are consistently more confident than Britons in which animals they believe they can beat in an unarmed fight, with 8% thinking they could take out an elephant if needed
61bW TIL that sulfur has all of of the primary colours. It melts into a red liquid, burns blue, and is a yellow solid!
rRjk0 TIL that Oklo mine in Africa consists of 16 sites at which self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions which are thought to have taken place approximately 1.7 billion years ago, and ran for hundreds of thousands of years.