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TIL 24 writers of the Simpsons went to Harvard

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5Vmn9 TIL that despite infamously campaigning on "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," Alabama governor George Wallace later renounced segregationism, publicly apologized to the black community, and appointed record numbers of African Americans to state positions and his cabinet.
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