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TIL that traveling in Jim Crow-era America was so difficult and dangerous for African-Americans that The Negro Motorist Green Book was written to help them.

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VMdXQ TIL that it is illegal to perform any homosexual activities in lebanon. Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code prohibits having sexual relations that are "contradicting the laws of nature", which is punishable by up to a year in prison.
1a5E8 TIL that India is home to Malabar giant squirrels- three-foot-long, multi-colored squirrels that range from black, brown and orange to maroon and purple.
nZBG TIL There was a time when AMD and Intel CPUs used the same socket, and could run on the same motherboard.
wLVM1 TIL Bill Bixby, who played the original Incredible Hulk's David Banner, had a 7-year old son who died in 1981 of a rare infection. His wife committed suicide as a result of their loss. Bill's next marriage ended in divorce at the same time he was diagnosed with cancer. Bill died in 1993 at age 59.
M710a TIL that when the submarine ARA San Juan disappeared in 2017, initial search crews picked up a banging noise at the search site, like tools hitting metal. After analyzing the audio, it was determined the sound was not from the submarine and was probably from a biological source.