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TIL after a Black female postmaster was wrongly pressured out of her post in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt continued to pay her federal salary and punished the town by rerouting their mail to Greenville, 30 miles away

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696aY TIL Michael Phelps contemplated suicide after the 2012 Olympics, in which he won four gold and two silver medals.
oRdoo TIL a human skin lampshade was found in one of the houses in the Nazi SS soldier accomodation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. A speciality of the SS in Buchenwald was the production of macabre “gifts” made of human remains
9Lwp TIL that a man claimed the only unclaimed habitable area left on earth, Bir Tawil, so that his daughter could be a real princess.
rgPe TIL the DC supervillain Brainiac was not named after the slang term for “an intellectual”. It was the other way around; the term originated with the supervillain’s name.
QyXd TIL that Buddhists have been replanting decedents of the tree that Buddha reached enlightenment under for thousands of years.