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TIL that after a massive power outage in Los Angeles, many residents called 911 and reported seeing strange clouds overhead - the Milky Way

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LQ0MQ TIL of a reporter who commissioned a paper from an academic ghostwriting agency to expose the "black market" for college assignments. Instead, the paper got an A-.
yV8J TIL FedEx returned a volleyball that washed up after the Japanese tsunami
Z8nWD TIL doctors' illegible handwriting kills more than 7,000 people a year.
MeRLB TIL that after the American Civil war some 10,000 to 20,000 Confederates fled to Brazil, founding the city of Americana near São Paulo. Today their descendents called "Confederados" have an annual festival marked by Confederate flags, uniforms, hoop skirts, and foods like fried chicken.
kOyxg TIL Dred Scott, following the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled he was neither free nor a citizen, was nonetheless freed along with his family by an abolitionist relative of his original owners less than three months later. He lived free less than two years before he died of tuberculosis.