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TIL that 70 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Joseph and Mary Tape filed suit against a San Francisco school principal and the city's board of education for denying their American-born 8 year-old daughter Mamie an education due to her Chinese heritage. They won.

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lrnK TIL that it’s estimated that 99 percent of wine is meant to be consumed within 5 years
G4v7 TIL Modern Romance languages come from a “non-classical” version of Latin called “Vulgar Latin” that had no orthography, was written in graffiti, and spoken by the lower-class. Basically, Romance languages evolved from Latin slang.
69G0J TIL Hitler claimed he didn’t have any problem with Jews until later in life when he visited Vienna (though his childhood friends dispute this)
QNlyL TIL about the Tri-State Crematory scandal. Nearly three hundred and fifty bodies that had been consigned to the crematory for proper disposition were discovered to have never been cremated
pYwRA TIL that coal, solar, and wind's combined capacity factor (actual electrical energy output over time when compared to theoretical output) is merely 8% better than just nuclear energy's capacity factor (92.5%).