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TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.

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4XBJR TIL In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.
e0DrJ TIL a study about class differences in 18th & 19th century England, showed that on average, a wealthy 16-year old boy was 8.5 inches taller than a poor 16-year old boy, as a result of malnourishment and living standards
vLB7 TIL that “only” 20 people have been boiled alive in Yellowstone National Park.
XE75R TIL Potato plant actually has a fruit, a potato fruit. And it's poisonous.
7QPO TIL that being a “cynic” originally meant you thought the purpose of life was to live virtuously in agreement with Nature, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame; living a simple life free from all possessions.