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TIL: Cinco De Mayo, celebrated in California continuously since 1863, is virtually ignored in Mexico a 2007 UCLA Newsroom article notes

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VEBm TIL Black individuals have been found to report the highest levels of self-esteem of any racial group in the United States
WaJo TIL that the raptors’ barking sounds in Jurassic Park were sampled from a recording of a tortoise having sex.
0wX7L TIL of the “next-in-line” effect—a phenomenon that causes people to regularly forget the names of the people they meet for the first time because they’re too focused on worrying about what they’ll say next to that person.
nWdjB TIL Divorce papers in the roman empire had to include a culpable party, which had potential legal complications. To avoid this, couples who wanted to divorce amicably, would officially put the blame on "an evil demon" that got between them and forced them to split up, thus avoiding culpability
6ENQw TIL the Pentagon has twice as many toilet facilities needed for a building of its size because it had to conform with the Commonwealth of Virginia's racial segregation laws during construction.