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TIL that black people with the lowest test scores have a better acceptance rate into med school than Asians with the highest test scores.

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X06pE TIL the release of T. Rex's hit single "Get it On" ended the once-solid friendship between Marc Bolan and John Peel: Peel made clear his lack of enthusiasm for the song on air after playing his advance white label copy. They only spoke once more before Bolan's death in 1977.
EA0 TIL that German Chocolate Cake has nothing to do with Germany, but rather a man with the last name of German.
ojgo TIL of the Reverse Tinkerbell Effect, an expression that stipulates that the more people believe in something, the more likely it is to vanish; If more people view cars as being safe to drive, the less safe they become as more people tend to drive without caution.
b981Z TIL Josephine Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the US and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
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