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TIL that in 1963, Malcolm X gave a powerful speech on the state of institutional racism in America

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OMya TIL that a truckload of bananas can trip nuclear weapon scanners because of the slight radiation each banana gives off from their potassium isotopes
JYeZ1 TIL that the American Alligator once neared extinction, by the 1950s, demands for hides and hunting in SE. USA had almost wiped out the species. In 1967 they were placed on federal protection. Today they are the least concern endangered classification. Florida today has 1.3 Million Alligators
v10mB TIL forensic hand analysis is a real thing
kOva7 TIL Caillou is bald because the original books portray him as a baby; when the time came to make him a four-year-old, it was found that adding hair made him unrecognizable, so he stayed bald.
WkG48 TIL In Afghanistan they make beautiful carpets that depict the decades of wars and violence the country has gone through. Instead of traditional motives, these rugs show drones, tanks and guns and began after the Soviet invasion in the 1980s, continuing after the NATO-invasion in the 2000s.