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After Washington became president, he had to move to the country’s Capitol where laws said that he could not keep his slaves after six months, so he repeatedly moved his slaves in and out of the state in order to keep them indefinitely. He even told his secretary to move the slaves “in a way that will deceive both them and the public.”
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/slavery-and-washingtons-presidency/
As a side note… After his death he left his remaining slaves to his wife Martha, and since they were inherited they would belong to her and then be freed when she died. She quickly realized that the only thing between the freedom of these enslaved people and their continued servitude was her own life, so she granted them all freedom immediately except for Oney Judge, who had escaped years earlier after George passed laws to prevent slaves in her specific scenario from ever achieving her own freedom.
Here’s a random interesting car fact. The accelerator pedal only controls how much air makes it to the engine; it opens and closes a flap in the air intake called the throttle body. The car has a sensor that records how much air is coming in, the mass airflow sensor, which is just a wire in the airstream. Electrical resistance in metals is proportional to temperature, and the air rushing by cools the wire. The car’s computer is then programmed to inject fuel according to the estimated amount of air coming in, which is double checked with oxygen sensors in the exhaust (which detect uncombusted air, i.e., too little fuel).
Plants have evolved to become carnivorous at least nine separate and unrelated times throughout history. Venus flytraps are only native to a tiny and shrinking part of the world, swampland around the Carolinas. They are at risk of going extinct in nature in the next few decades.
TVTropes is what I sink my time in when I want a good laugh and have absolutely no motivation to do anything but doomscroll through text. Pick a favourite series you don’t mind spoilers on and read through all the tropes for a good laugh or to reminisce over what was good or bad about the series.
It used to be popular among European landowners to have a garden hermit as part of the landscaping decor.
