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TIL a bird that went extinct re-evolved itself back to existence

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9wA56 Today I learned of Seneca Village, a settlement founded by free Black Americans that was seized and razed in 1857 to create New York's Central Park. Wealthy families successfully sued to prevent the seizure of their land that was the original site proposed for a park.
9YMkM TIL: School bus yellow was specifically created for use on school buses at a conference in 1939. Attendees at the seven-day conference included paint experts from DuPont and Pittsburgh Paints. The color was chosen because it attracts attention and is noticed quickly in peripheral vision.
x67p1 TIL that slavery was still legal in the British Empire as late as 1964 (in the Federation of South Arabia, previously the Aden Colony, now part of Yemen)
QNab6 TIL Val Kilmer had to go to therapy after he finished filming the doors because he couldn’t shake his Jim Morrison character
xVNM5 TIL popularity of a June wedding in European tradition is because bathing was much less frequent in middle ages since it was thought to increase chance of disease so most bathed once a year and usually in late spring. So, made sense to marry in June when people would smell better for their weddings