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TIL about mind-blindness. Mind-blindness is a concept of a cognitive divergence where an individual is unable to attribute mental states to others.

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b9gpN TIL about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old African American girl from Montgomery, AL who was arrested in 1955 after she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman, telling the bus driver, "It's my constitutional right to sit here." She did this 9 months prior to Rosa Parks' famous protest.
yx8e TIL Kosher salt isn’t any more kosher than regular table salt. It gets its name from its use in making meats kosher by removing surface blood.
7rvK7 TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.
yQLVe TIL 10% of Florida's adult population are felons
WB6X TIL after the Sandy Hook shootings, people donated more than 65,000 teddy bears, 9 tractor trailers of paper snowflakes, and half a million letters to a town of only 27,000 people. Since then the bears have been re-donated across the globe to places including Haiti, and Afghanistan.