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TIL about the Implicit Association Test (IAT). It is a test developed in 1998 to assess people's implicit bias in things such as race and sex. I've linked the Harvard version of the test if you want to give it a go.

Read more implicit.harvard.edu

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9YboM TIL that on June 23, 2014 Charles R. Moore a white minister from Texas set himself on fire to protest racism
MeeZA TIL the founder of Chrysler's 14-year-old son hung a small watercolor landscape featuring an inch-high nude in his dorm room. His dorm master, believing that it was improper for a young man to display a picture of a nude woman, confiscated the picture and destroyed it. The painting was by Renoir.
ANZWB TIL Ancient mummified forests in Canada's Quttinirpaaq National Park were discovered in 2010. Located at the northern tip of Canada in the arctic on an island only a little smaller than Great Britain, this park is accessible by ship from $13,300 USD
9n7p TIL I learned of Matthias Sindelar, the “Mozart of football”. Widely considered one of the best players of the 1930s, he defiantly scored and celebrated a goal against Nazi Germany in a game meant to celebrate the Anschluss. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1939.
LkX99 TIL of eight deaths related to ingesting liquid laundry packets (i.e. Tide Pods) in the U.S. between 2012 and early 2017 that have been reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, only two of the cases were actually children, with six of them being adults with dementia.