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TIL that in 1844, the Provisional Government of Oregon banned all black people from the Oregon Country. Though rendered legally void upon the enactment of Amendment 14 to the US Constitution in 1868, the ban technically remained on the statute books until 1926.

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9YNMp TIL That when a whale dies in colder waters, its body sinks to the ocean floor creating a complex localized ecosystem for years called a whale fall.
E1Zm0 TIL A man, Denver Lee St. Clair died after being subjected to an atomic wedgie by his 33 year old stepson
evx5 TIL that the English language evolves so rapidly in the United States that is possible to roughly estimate one’s age simply based on whether they say “on accident” or “by accident”
xyb0 TIL that even though dynamite plays a big part in the ending of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, dynamite wasn’t actually invented until almost a decade after the time period in which the film was set.
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