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TIL about Watermelon Mosaic Virus spread by aphids looks like someone carved crop circles on a watermelon

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gr9Ly TIL two Navajo women served as scouts with the Army’s 20th Infantry Regiment in the summer of 1886. They may have been the first women to enlist as combatants with the US Army.
rRG8d TIL that Plessy in the infamous Plessy v Fergusen case was actually a white guy that considered himself as 1/8th black. He had walked into a white only train cart, went up to a conductor and told him this so that he would be arrested and could file suit to try and get the segregation law overturned.
ne9P9 TIL that one out of six people in the United States has genital herpes. Almost 90% of them - that's more than 48 million Americans - don’t know they have it.
jNQ4N TIL US cities are losing 36 million trees a year
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