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TIL America’s first female self-made millionaire was a black woman

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VBkZQ TIL about London bus driver, Albert Gunter. He found his bus on the London Bridge just was it was opening for a ship. He slammed the gas and jumped the gap. For this, he was given a bonus of £10 (about £290 in today’s money)
vYe8 TIL there exists a painting in the dome of the US Capitol Building that depicts George Washington literally ascending to heaven and becoming divine.
wLwLJ TIL from 1838-1976 it was legal to kill Mormons in Missouri.
neGvd TIL that the phrase “well-behaved women seldom make history” is often misquoted, but still has a powerful feminist message on the importance of women and men who perform small actions in our society
gVmy TIL a man named Simon Bunce was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.