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TIL that Mister Rogers was bullied as a child. "I used to cry to myself when I was alone," he said. "And I would cry through my fingers and make up songs on the piano." As he grew up, he decided to always look past the surface of people to the "essential invisible" within them.

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WkvvL According to Texas A&M’s Urban Mobility Report 2019, the average auto commuter spends an extra 54 hours in his or her car every year on top of the time it should actually take to get to the office. If you live in a city like Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York, that figure doubles. In Los Angeles, for example, commuters spend 119 hours each year delayed in their cars—that’s almost three full weeks spent idling.
E1VZp TIL about the Three-Fifths Compromise, where slaves were counted as 3/5 of a citizen. The Southern states wanted more seats in Congress than they might achieve with only white people, but counting them as equal would be plainly hypocritical, since slaves did no have the rights of free people.
ADjen TIL Archaeologists excavating a cave in the mountains of central Mexico have unearthed evidence that people occupied the area more than 30,000 years ago — suggesting that humans arrived in North America at least 15,000 years earlier than thought
loGd1 TIL that on 18 October 1863, recently freed slaves and dispatched Union soldiers banded together to defend the town of Pine Bluff, Arkansas from marauding Confederates during the Battle of Pine Bluff.
KYK7E TIL about Eipmaco Amancio, a 98-year-old from Dalaguete, Cebu. Decades ago, he planted a pine tree that saved 32 passengers in August 2010. A bus lost control but was stopped by his tree, preventing it from plunging into a 500-foot ravine that may have caused major disaster and casualties.