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TIL Sojourner Truth's first language was Dutch, and her famous "Ain't I A Woman" speech was rewritten to sound more stereotypically Black

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7Var TIL There is an operating system that fits on a floppy disk, and is still being developed for fun
eaX4 TIL A&T offered a 900 number ($2 first minute, $0.45 for each additional minute) where callers could hear the live ground loop during shuttle missions. This was also used for up-to-the-minute details of Voyager’s encounter with Neptune.
LQE9P TIL there was a UK adaptation of the American show Golden Girls called "The Brighton Belles". The British version was released a year after the Golden Girl's final episode and was nearly identical to the original except for name changes.
8PpV TIL the Earth was established as a sphere since about 300 BC
KOnB4 TIL that despite Diogenes' notoriety for philosophical stunts, including his exchanges with Plato and Alexander the great, the philosopher has no surviving written works. Considered to be one of the founders of cynicism, Diogenes is said to have written 10 books, 7 tragedies and a volume of letters.