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TIL that in parts of the Jim Crow South, Black people were denied purchasing vanilla ice cream with the exception of Independence Day.

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MAZm TIL the Catholic Church accepts Darwinian evolution, as long as the existence of the human soul is not in any way dependent on it
A44 TIL 21 people died in “The Great Molasses Flood” of 1919. More than 90 years later, some streets in Boston still “bleed” molasses on hot days.
W77wN TIL that there are roughly eight-hundred-quadrillion times more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than atoms on Earth
WkQ1B TIL that Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science
woXm7 TIL of the Brumadinho Tailings dam (toxic sludge created as a byproduct of Iron mining) collapse, the company that owned this mine owned another mine where they had another Tailings dam collapse causing major loss of life.