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TIL it was illegal for black people to move to Oregon until 1926.

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oDBr TIL space junk destroys around one satellite each year
XEKME TIL the first huge ammonium nitrate disaster happened 104 years before the Beirut explosion in Faversham, Kent, UK, but was hushed up by authorities during the first world war. 108 people lost their lives and many more were injured.
b9O7E TIL that a 'bad' Bean Boozle flavor is made by super-heating the actual disgusting item, putting it through a "gas chromotograph," isolating the chemical makeup, and converting it into "flavor markers" for the jelly bean.
xKw1 TIL in Walk the Line, the scene where Joaquin Phoenix tears the sink off the wall was unscripted and he actually did it himself.
Dmrp TIL: Sperm from fire ant populations is capable of eliminating DNA from female ovum, essentially producing a clone of the male.