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TIL Black people make up only 32% of Compton, down from 90% in the 1970’s.

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b66b9 TIL there is Nuclear Grade Duct Tape
06OL TIL In 2012 a biotech startup succeeded wildly in turning seaweed into ethanol biofuel but went bust because seaweed is worth almost twice as much as ethanol
Egnjd TIL years before playing Dracula, Bela Lugosi had served as a lieutenant in World War I. At one point, he was helping protect a forest and left his post at a tree to give an officer first aid. When he came back, he found the tree to have been blown into many pieces and wept out of gratitude to God.
Me5GB TIL Prairie dog language is complex. They don’t just have a call for “danger”: their calls differentiate human, hawk, domesticated dog, coyote etc. and specify size & color. One study found that they can communicate “Here comes the short human in the yellow” (vs the tall human in blue) to each other
mW9O TIL that “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming.