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TIL Laura Scofield, a Women's Suffrage Advocate wrote this letter 25 years before Women's Right to vote would pass. She did not live to see it.

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wLyZW TIL that when Henry Ford doubled the pay of his auto workers from $2.50 per day to $5, he didn't do it for altruistic reasons. His factory had one of the highest turnover rates (due to danger of the assembly line and tedium of the work). After the raises, it dropped to the lowest.
Rmgl TIL that the Chinese army is under the control of the Communist Party and not the national government of China.
gjW8 TIL Soviet scientists tried to create nuclear 7.62 mm bullets for AKM/PKM. They used californium-252 instead of uranium or plutonium. Each bullet had enough power to destroy a tank (100—700 kg of TNT equivalent)
Me7gA TIL that the actress who played Zenon was arrested and charged over a DUI.
VM75m TIL of Marty Irby who spoke out against soring TN Walking Horses: caustic stuff & weights are put on legs; a horse throws its leg in the air reacting to the pain which trains the horse for The Big Lick high-stepping. Irby got death threats & even his wife left him for taking a stance against soring.