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TIL Clara Barton held a clerkship in the US Patent Office with pay equal to that of men. She was the first woman to hold a position or pay of this type in government. Being wrongly fired in 1857 she returned under Lincoln as a copyist to help pave the way for future women's equality in government.

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5DQQ TIL the cousin of the “ Internet Bully Hero”, that slams a kid on the floor at school for bullying him, committed suicide. Because of bullying.
l7K9a TIL prior to 1972, the NFL did not calculate ties in a team's winning percentage. This is why the Spartans whose Win-Loss-Tie record was 6-1-4 (.857 win %) and the Bears at 6-1-6 (.857) went to the first NFL playoff game in 1932 and the Packers at 10-3-1 (.769) were not declared the NFL champions.
BrKdr TIL that some trees can survive temperatures as low as -269 degree Celsius. They have evolved a supercooling method where the insides of their cells turn into glass. Its a kind of suspended animation where the molecules don't really move.
xVwy0 TIL in 1977, Ben Cohen was a struggling potter & Jerry Greenfield was getting rejected by medical schools. The pair decided to open a bagel shop, but the cost of bagel machines was too high. As a result, they enrolled in a $5 ice cream making course instead. A year later, they created Ben & Jerry's
Zw14 TIL a homeless alcoholic survived 9 deadly attempts on his life as an insurance scam by the owners of a local bar. The scammers originally tried to get him to die of alcohol consumption; after every attempt, he returned for more free drinks.