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TIL 1996 was the first year over half of Americans approved of interracial marriage

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rRBJy TIL critics complained that a bronze statue of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal standing in San Francisco's Civic Center more closely resembled the Sumerian king Gilgamesh.
m1NYx TIL that Franklin D. Roosevelt likely had Guillain-Barré Syndrome, not Polio.
e8bk TIL that a beer company developed edible six-pack rings that marine life or humans can eat
b9oW7 TIL that James Cameron received a 'snarky' email from Neil DeGrasse Tyson regarding star placement in the movie Titanic. He complained they wouldn't have been the same ones as in 1912. James Cameron agreed to fix it.
EgJ97 TIL marshmallows are a 4000 year old food beginning in ancient Egypt AND originally they were made from the sap of a mallow plant…that grows in marshes…