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TIL There is greater inequality in Manhattan today than existed in South Africa before Apartheid ended

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PYxvZ TIL in Waco Texas, 1916, 10,000 people watched the lynching of Jesse Washington (castrated, burned, and mutilated for 2+ hours) A photographer sold postcards of the event. Prominent citizens eventually persuaded photographer to stop selling them fearing the images would come to characterize the town
eNp4 TIL the first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot. It was for people to avoid pointless trips to the coffee pot by providing a live 128x128 greyscale image of it.
VVM0 TIL Reddit founder Alex Ohanian, wrote an open letter to Reddit about stopping their sexist ways. It was titled “dear fellow geeks: WTF”
YpbOG TIL: In 1946 the US Army commissioned a documentary called " Let There be Light " intended to teach the public about PTSD and the treatment of the veterans with the mental disability, the film after it's release was banned in the US until the 1980s.
GLx7 TIL that less than 1% of Sweden’s trash ends up in landfills