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TIL that Jefferson’s original Declaration of Independence contained a paragraph about the evils of slavery.

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E1Apw TIL that US and British colonization of remote islands was driven by demand for bird poop used as fertilizer and in manufacture of gun powder.
LkK1Z TIL the United States Navy Pre-Flight School created a routine to help pilots fall asleep in 2 minutes or less. It took pilots about 6 weeks of practice, but it worked — even after drinking coffee and with gunfire noises in the background.
16DV TIL - the guy who used to hold up the John 3:16 sign at football games is in prison for life
lood1 The boomerang seems as Australian as ''Waltzing Matilda,'' but the oldest specimen may have come from a far distant part of the world -Poland. Scientists, there have found a 23,000-year-old piece of the curved mammoth tusk that some ancient artisan carved and polished into the aerodynamic shape of a boomerang.
OGB7e TIL that the University of Michigan's prized Galileo manuscript turned out to be a clever forgery.