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TIL That Mississippi Officially Abolished Slavery and Ratified 13th Amendment....in 2013

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p8mZp TIL that Stanley Kubrick recorded a typist hammering out “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” because he believed each typewriter key made a slightly different sound and he wanted the audio track of “The Shining” to be perfectly accurate.
vgyL TIL American pediatrician Saul Krugman deliberately infected thousands of mentally disabled children with Hepatitis B between 1950-1972 to further his research in vaccinology. He was made president of the American Pediatric Society in 1972.
QJwWE TIL there is a baseball team named the Rocket City Trash Pandas. Their logo is a raccoon in a trash can that is also a rocket.
5VyP8 TIL the astragalus of a prehistoric rhinoceros, collected by the Ancient Greeks, was discovered at the Mycenae archaeological site in the 1970s.
n5kG TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military instead it wants the Americans to tell them what to do