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TIL Sparta called itself Lacedaemon, which is why the symbol for Sparta is the Greek letter Lambda

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XERQ8 TIL a man once dared John P. Parker, an Underground Railroad conductor, to help his slaves escape. The man slept with the enslaved couple's baby in his room, knowing they wouldn't leave him behind. Parker snuck in, grabbed the baby & led everyone to freedom while the enslaver shot after them.
78ZAr TIL Ferruccio Lamborghini, owner of a successful factory of tractors in Emilia Romagna, started producing his own supercars in the 60s because he was not satisfied of his Ferrari since the clutch was bad, and he had a struggle with Enzo Ferrari
wL4jJ TIL there are rocks in California that are highly-polished from the suspected rubbing extinct Columbian Mammoths performed on them 1,000s of years ago during the Ice Age.
OobEe TIL that a man once held 20 hostages in the Canadian embassy in Beirut because the government of B.C., CA, wouldn't let him build an amusement park on a deserted island in Okanagan Lake.
b9yBp TIL that in 1890 William Morrison invented the first successful practical electric automobile in the United States.