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TIL Maine’s state flower is a pinecone.

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mx9LO TIL Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to win an Oscar for Gone with the Win, however she was unable to attend the premier in Atlanta at a whites-only theater, sat at a segregated table on the side of the room at the Oscars and was not buried in the Hollywood Cemetery despite her final wish.
rRNo TIL: It’s possible to register to be a bone marrow donor by mail. They send you swabs in the mail and you mail them back. Also, donating bone marrow is now painless.
5VLG9 TIL that Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister, was given a lobotomy at age 23. The family feared she would disgrace their reputation.
1aBO TIL that implanting a magnet in your finger gives you a “sixth sense” - the ability to sense magnetic fields.
l4P7 TIL that ‘The Guardian’ keeps a database of the number of US citizens killed by the police in the United States