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TIL that the thirteenth amendment, which outlawed slavery, was not ratified by the state of Mississippi until 1995.

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JADm TIL 70 years ago today, the Polish attacked the Nazis to liberate their capital. During the 9 week rebellion that followed, more than 200,000 died, mostly civilians. Now, every August first, the entire city of Warsaw stands still for a full minute to commemorate their fallen.
KOpZ9 TIL Jason Padgett was hit in the head after a violent attack in 2002, this attack in turn made him acquire Savant Syndrome, which gave his extremely good math skills and a different view in the world, with water looking like flowing lines as opposed to the smoothness most of us see.
7BEr TIL: That American toilets clog so much because they have a trapway half the size of the trapway in an Australian or NZ Toilet
okKA TIL that a study published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy found no correlation between rates of gun ownership and rates of murder and suicide while in some regions, high rates of gun ownership negatively correlated with violent crime.
rNKme TIL that grandma killer whales increase the survival of the pack by letting their daughters mate while taking care of their grandoffspring