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TIL Mississippi didn’t lift its ban on interracial marriage until 1987.

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W7NmB TIL that Carly Simon is the daughter of the Simon in Simon & Schuster
ABLo TIL that Canada accidentally signed in the wrong spot on the Japanese surrender treaty at the end of WWII, messing up the order of the document.
5M5B TIL George Aldrich has worked for NASA for over 40 years, and his job is to smell things. This is to ensure that there are no unpleasant smells on ISS and the shuttle. Oh and his nose also gets calibrated and tested every four months.
nW8ZY Today I learned that the influx of silver from the discovery of the Potosi mines indirectly caused the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
vmD4 TIL that in WWII Charles Lindbergh instructed P-38 pilots how to stretch their typical 7 hour maximum flight endurance time to 9 hours (an extra 400 miles of range), which dramatically changed Pacific Theater operations