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TIL in 2006 Bill Murray joined an NYU archaeology team for a dig in the Mediterranean because he felt like it

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Wkd6A TIL in 1959, rather than integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed all of their public schools for FIVE YEARS. White children attended state-subsidized "private schools". No provision was made for educating the county's black children.