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TIL the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 required that a racial description of every person be recorded at birth and divided society into only two classifications: white and colored. It also expanded Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage by criminalizing all marriages between whites and non-whites

p8DxO TIL About the history of cheese
Lk8xr TIL that the largest cruise ship today, Symphony of the Seas, is the equivalent of almost 5 Titanics in size and mass.
m1GeM TIL there was a UFO battle above Nuremberg in 1561
d860Z TIL that a Power plant can turn waste to energy | Ethiopia
OrZe TIL dry counties (counties where the sale of alcohol is banned) have a drunk driving fatality rate ~3.6 times higher than wet counties.