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TIL Alabama did not repeal its ban on interracial marriage until 2000. 40% of people voted against the repeal.

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OGVZ4 TIL that in 2020, researchers tried to determine the actual effects of ingesting George's Marvelous Medicine (from the Roald Dahl book), consisting of shampoo, anti-freeze, brown paint, floor polish, and 30 other household items. It would cause vomiting, kidney injury, convulsions, and likely death.
EGed TIL that the CEO of McDonald’s is a former robotics engineer who thought he was being recruited by McDonnell Douglas (a defense contractor) when he was first hired.
rNEM0 TIL About the Bantu Expansion where in 10 waves of migration between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE Bantu peoples from the area around modern day Cameroon settled nearly all of Sub-Saharan Africa eliminating, displacing or absorbing most of the indigenous peoples of the region.
v1EBL TIL In 1673 Thomas Cornell Jr. was accused, tried, convicted and hanged for the alleged murder of his mother. He was convicted using spectral evidence, where witnesses recounted DREAMS involving GHOSTS pointing to his alleged guilt.
xVjm1 TIL a cow in Poland escaped on its way to the slaughterhouse, broke through a metal fence, swam to a nearby island, and was allowed to live there after its owner gave up trying to recapture it.