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TIL: Einstein denounced segregation, calling it a “disease of white people” and worked against racism in America

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loKxA TIL firefighters responding to the Chernobyl nuclear accident described their experiences of the radiation as "tasting like metal", and feeling a sensation similar to that of pins and needles all over their faces.
b6mOj TIL that a Florida attorney, E.E. Calloway, believed that the area around Florida’s Torreya State Park was the site of the biblical Garden of Eden and created a tourist attraction where people could tour the site. He also believed the torreya trees in the park were used to build Noah’s Ark.
D8mD TIL that around 1.5 million people were evicted in Beijing in preparation for the 2008 Olympics
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