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TIL A group of wild bunnies is called a fluffle.

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VQg8 TIL that if each of the US states were a separate country, the 37 countries with the highest incarceration rates would all be US states.
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9wb9r TIL Loving County, Texas, is named after rancher Oliver Loving. While dying in New Mexico in 1867 from gangrene caused by Comanche arrows, Loving convinced his friend to temporarily bury his body for six months, then exhume it and haul it by wagon 500 miles back to Texas for a proper burial.
9wA56 Today I learned of Seneca Village, a settlement founded by free Black Americans that was seized and razed in 1857 to create New York's Central Park. Wealthy families successfully sued to prevent the seizure of their land that was the original site proposed for a park.
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