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TIL of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the only known white woman to be murdered working for the Civil Rights movement.

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VO5B TIL In Australia, cavities in the ground left by fossils will sometimes fill with a liquid containing dissolved opals. When the liquid evaporates, the opal remains, forming opalised fossils. The best example of this is a 6m long Plesiosaur skeleton, completely made of opal (more sources in comments)
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J1rXj TIL in Denmark it's legal to burn the national flag, but illegal to burn foreign (i.e non-Danish) flags
nek6B TIL that an exasperated village in West Virginia asked the Soviets for help to replacing a bridge after being ignored by the American government. The Soviets sent a journalist to investigate and within one hour the American government finally agreed to pay for it
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