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ayJ0 TIL Massachusetts guaranteed access to all public schools to every child in 1845, after a group of black whalers from Nantucket, accustomed to the relative equality they had on whaling ships, began a boycott and petition campaign.
LkZm TIL John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) actually planted apple trees in prime real estate in an effort to sell the land as new settlers flooded into the midwest.