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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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16ZM4 TIL that a blue moon happens when a full moon appears multiple times in a month and not when the moon becomes blue
Z81mR TIL that platypus can produce milk but they dont have teats; instead they concentrate their milk in their stomach and sweat the milk.
xewB TIL that mining corporate-hired “agents drove a heavily armored train through a tent colony at night, opening fire on women, men and children with a machine gun”(1912) to prevent unionization in the buildup to the 2nd largest insurrection in the US since the Civil War.
E1nEW TIL upon hearing about the death of Teddy Roosevelt, Vice President Thomas R. Marshal declared “death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there’d have been a fight”
VMnOB TIL that monkeys aren't supposed to eat bananas. The bananas that humans consume are so full of sugar that monkeys will get diabetes if it is a regular part of their diet.