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TIL of Glacier Mice. Balls of moss that form on the surface of a glacier and move together, up to an inch at a time, like a herd of little mice.

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0w0gN TIL: To this day Wisconsin still has not elected a single Native American to Congress.
E9rx TIL there is a community in southern Ohio who are thought of as black, regardless of the color of their skin. They’re actively discriminated against by the neighboring town because of this.
DQwgj TIL that the first person to perform at the Sydney Opera House was Paul Robeson – he sang "Ol' Man River" to the construction workers as they ate lunch.
6Ew47 TIL about the Ice block expedition of 1959. Glassvatt successfully transported 3 tons of ice from Mo i Rana to Libreville without any refrigeration , losing only 11% of ice weight in the journey which took 27 days to complete over 10,000 km(~6200miles).
ANxXB TIL: Eugene Bullard (1895–1961) was the first Black combat pilot, serving in the French Air Service during WWI. An American expatriate, he later became a jazz musician, boxer, and club owner in Paris after escaping Jim Crowe. He used his status in Parisian high society to spy on the Nazis.