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TIL that there was an outbreak of the plague in the US during the 20th Century

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xVlWg TIL about the "Impossible Literacy Test of 1964" that was given in Louisiana to those who wanted to vote. The test is to be taken in less than 10 minutes, the questions were intentionally vague and obtuse and if you failed, you couldn't vote. It was intentionally used to disenfranchise voters.
lPQ1 TIL Google invented a fake town and placed it on Google Maps. It is believed that this was a form of DRM to let Google know who was copying their maps.
XEvJ6 TIL Machine Learning models can be fooled badly. It confidently recognizes images which are unrecognizable to humans.
KODp9 TIL That a rat king is a collection of rats who’s tails have been intertwined and bound together. They grow together and eat together and sometimes when one of them dies they eat it together. There can be up to 32 rats in one rat king.
5VJaP TIL that the Filipino carpenter Ruben Enaje has been publicly crucified on Good Friday almost every year since 1986, only skipping 2020-2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.