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

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M9d0 TIL that a group of Oregon lawmakers rickrolled the state legislature in 2011. Each person incorporated one line into their speech.
0yjv TIL that the serving sizes on food labels in the US are not the recommended healthy portion sizes but rather the amount customarily consumed by Americans as determined through sampling taken in the 1970s and 80s.
E10RX TIL the Ebola Virus should be called Yambuku fever, since that was the village in Zaire where it was identified in 1976 by Peter Piot, a Belgian scientist. Piot decided to name it after the river Ebola, 60 miles from Yambuku, to avoid stigmatizing the village by giving its name to a deadly disease.
d8LE9 TIL that there are rainforests in temperate parts of the world ie. UK, Canada and Norway
JY6r8 TIL there is a guy who made an entire electric toaster from raw materials - mining and refining steel, nickel, copper, mica, and making plastic - after being inspired by a Hitchhiker’s Guide quotation.