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

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N77mQ TIL Inbreeding is a humongous problem in the middle east. 70% of marriages in Pakistan are between first cousins, and roughly 50% of people in the 'Arab world' are 'inbred'.
rR18x TIL a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own
oml7 TIL France was not the first to recognize the US as a legitimate nation. Morocco was the first. Even today, Morocco and the US share the US’ longest unbroken treaty.
D1D5p TIL that the world uses 27,000 trees worth of toilet paper every day.
e0BDn TIL Writer Norah Vincent lived as a man for 18 months. She said the experience opened her eyes to the “suffering of men”, namely the pain from a lack of emotional intimacy & weight of being “providers”. Traumatized by the ordeal, she checked herself into a mental health facility after it was over.