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TIL football, baseball, basketball and hockey were all invented by Canadians.

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GYJG1 TIL Lisa Nowak operated the robotic arm on the International Space Station and also became the first astronaut ever to be arrested. She is remembered for wearing maximum-absorption garments—government-issued astronaut diapers—during her 950-mile drive from Houston to Orlando
mogo TIL the Roman senator Cato the Elder took the threat of Carthage so seriously that he would end all of his speeches, no matter the subject, with the phrase, “And, further, I think that Carthage should be destroyed.”
KOmO9 TIL That the company behind the "Fearless Girl" statue on Wall Street paid women and black executives less than the white men.
LQYZP TIL the first anti-slavery tract in North America was produced in 1688, by Quakers in Pennsylvania.
dDmZj TIL My Great Grandmother was a Cherokee. Her father was Catawba. I found this video of their tribes.