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TIL that More Black Men are in Prison Today than were Enslaved in 1850

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8P7b TIL Of a white woman murdered by the KKK for driving black protesters home and then the FBI disparaged her name to cover up involvement of one of its informants.
yVOMV TIL of the lost civilization of Tartessos in modern Spain, who's language is unclassified. The location is unknown but is thought to have been near a giant estuary that turned into the Guadalquivir Marshes. Some to speculate Tartessos to be the biblical Tarshish or even Atlantis.
pjkb TIL In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.
OoML6 TIL 'Amor fati' describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not.