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Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, August 19th, 1791, Benjamin Bannaker sent a draft of an almanac that he was working on to Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson was, of course, a founding father, but also a scientist, scientifically minded.

So I suppose Bannaker felt it would be a nice move to send him an advanced copy of the almanac he was drafting.

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