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TIL in 1970 Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi for having a racially integrated cast

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rNeo4 TIL only 4% of Americans had a passport in the 1990s
1YvV TIL That the walrus, despite seeming so lazy, actually sleeps the least of any animal. They can go up to 84 hours without sleep, all while swimming and hunting.
By5e TIL that the number of wrecks in the Bermuda Triangle is not extraordinary, given its size, location and the amount of traffic it receives.
VBGQB TIL Gunter Schabowski accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall at a press conference in 1989. He had not reviewed the press release script and was absent during the Politburo deliberations.
rNJPM TIL about tulou, giant walled villages built by the Hakka ethnic group of China. Tulou could fit up to 800 people inside them with farms, houses and even markets. They were designed by the Hakka for protection from attacks by the Cantonese ethnic group the Punti in one of the many wars they fought.