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TIL the first person of African heritage in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

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v1o9D TIL Ida B. Wells won a Pulitzer Prize last year (2020) "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching", 89 years after she died.
jEOQ TIL in 2005, an 8-yr old boy’s 14-yr old female babysitter initiated sexual contact with him and the district attorney filed charges against the child boy, not the teenage girl.
v40B TIL: 250 million years ago coal fires may have caused “The Great Dying” aka the Permian Extinction, in which 80% of life on land and 90% of sea life were killed
xVloo TIL until 1979, Nicaraguan deaf students were stigmatized and barred from school. With deaf schools opening but no experienced teachers, teens developed a unique language. In 6 years younger students joining were fluent and versed in the new sign language, stunning linguists.
Pm5L TIL Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey in Friends, and comedian Louis CK were classmates in both junior high and high school. Yearbook photos in link.