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TIL That Wild Bil Hickok and his family were very anti-slavery. Hickok’s father moved his family from Vermont to Maine to Homer (now Troy Grove), Illinois. There the family’s small farm served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

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gMNNA TIL Stoicism had a profound impact on Christianity, with some of the central concepts of Stoicism still being used in religious texts today, such as "virtue", "Spirit" and "conscience". Stoicism also invented the idea that sex is just within marriage, for unitive and procreative purposes only.
BrEOW TIL In 2018, the President of Liberia declared that the University of Liberia and all other public universities in Liberia tuition free, making Liberia an example to other African nations on the continent
8vZV TIL That there was a private-sector post office in the 1800s called the American Letter Mail Company, which delivered letters for half the price the USPS charged, and was later shut down because it’s illegal to compete against the USPS.
QRP6 TIL the actress who played Newt in Aliens never acted again after that movie. She turned down the Hollywood life and became an elementary school teacher instead
v1yyK TIL that in the original novels, James Bond was found to consume, on average, 92 units of alcohol a week. His preference for martinis “shaken, not stirred” may have stemmed from an inability to stir his drinks due persistent shaking from alcohol induced tremors.