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TIL Spanish conquistadors went exploring all the way up to Kansas in the 1500s

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Me6n7 TIL About Africville, the black community of Halifax that was purposefully neglected by the city in an effort to make it un-livable. Halifax denied sewage, roads, and other services, even creating a toxic waste dump nearby, eventually Halifax bulldozed the community with people still in their houses
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