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TIL in 2020 The U.S. $20 bill will no longer feature President Andrew Jackson on the front, but the American Abolitionst and former slave Harriet Tubman

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Y7RQP TIL the featured speaker at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, not Lincoln. He gave a 2 hour speech preceding the Gettysburg Address. After, he wrote to Lincoln "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
GAyoQ TIL for 2022, the NY Philharmonic's revenue from performing accounted for just 9% of their total revenue, with 66% coming from donations and 25% from investment income.
yd0e TIL that in 1979 there was an anthrax leak at a Soviet military facility that killed most of the workers in a factory downwind. The USSR denied having an active biological weapons program, but in 1992 a team of inspectors discovered how the accident had occurred.
OaNL TIL these little bumps are actually very normal, common and harmless and they’re called “Fordyce’s spot.” Link is possibly NSFW.
dO1Z TIL: Nazis destroyed Germany’s largest institute focusing on human sexuality in 1933 that studied and advocated for Gay and Transexual rights, burning their extensive library and research as it was deemed “Un-German”.