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

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jNxdj TIL of that time Peter Jackson tried to get Lee to scream as he was stabbed, only to be corrected. "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back?" Lee said he asked Jackson. "Because I do."
Wkw7o TIL, in the 1928 Olympics, Australian sculler Bobby Pearce stopped rowing to let a family of ducks pass. His opponent ended up with a 5 length lead. In the final 1,000 meters Pearce pulled ahead by 30 seconds, not only winning the gold but setting a Games record.
r7No TIL Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that Satan and his demons were cast down to earth from heaven after October 1, 1914, at which point the end times began.
XEDGE TIL in 1976, the world's first keystroke loggers were installed on electric typewriters in the US embassy in Moscow, and went undetected for nearly a decade.
M9L7 TIL a neuroscientist plans to perform the world’s first brain transplant using a cryogenically frozen brain and a donor body