Isabella worked as a housekeeper for a cult. Yes; a cult. To make things even more exciting, Isabella was accused of attempting to poison a white couple in the cult. She was acquitted, sued the couple for slander, and won…marking a legal first for a Black woman. (Source)

You've heard that history repeats itself? Like Rosa Parks, Truth had her arm dislocated by a (white) streetcar conductor when she refused to leave. So she campaigned and won the right for shared streetcars in Washington, DC. Not a bad response to that situation, huh? (Source)

Sojourner Truth also moonlighted as that era's Tim Gunn. She poked fun at suffragist fashions, contrasting their want to be taken seriously with the very silly outfits they wore She was quoted as asking, "What kind of reformers be you, with goose-wings on your heads, as if you were going to fly, and dressed in such ridiculous fashion, talking about reform and women's rights?" (Source)

Sojourner enjoyed fibbing about her age. She claimed to be over 100 for the last decade of her life and her gravestone records her age at 105. Best guess puts her at about 76 when she died. (Source)

A bunch of frat boys crashed one of her tent revivals. She managed to calm them by singing hymns and telling them her life story. Everyone else ran and hid, but not Sojourner. She sat them down and sang the equivalent of Kumbaya...and it worked. Her bio mentions how tired she got of singing, but the drunk fools kept egging her on. (Source)