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TIL of Marie C. Bolden, a 14-year-old Black girl who became the first individual champion of the first-ever National Spelling Bee in the U.S. in 1908. Her win sparked controversy, with the New Orleans school board later censuring officials for allowing their (white) students to compete.

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kV64 TIL that there’s a waterfall in Antarctica that has a water source completely free of oxygen. Containing a high amount of Iron & Sodium. When the water is exposed to air as it flows out of the glacier it rusts coloring the water red making it look like the glacier is bleeding!
JJ6j TIL In the 1896 U.S. election, William McKinley won despite the fact that he campaigned from the front porch of his home in Ohio while his opponent travelled extensively by railway speaking at over 600 events.
nepvB TIL Crows will sometimes actively hunt rabbits and have even been noted as chasing the bunnies off of fields and onto the road, where the rabbits are hit by cars and subsequently eaten by the birds!
BrM7b TIL a young Andrew Jackson received a slash to the face from the sword of a British officer during his captivity for refusing to polish his shoes.
dDeV8 TIL if the town of Hempstead, New York, were to be incorporated as a city it would be the second-largest in New York after NYC, with a population of 793,409. It is three times the size of Buffalo, New York's current second-largest city.