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TIL That until 1994, less than half of America approved of interracial marriage

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loNx1 TIL the first virus discovered is the Tobacco mosaic virus, over 100 years ago. It causes a mosaic looking disease in tobacco plants; it can survive for years in cigars and cigarettes made from infected leaves. Wendell Stanley won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for discovering that it's made from protein.
wLmJE TIL "The China Syndrome", a 1979 movie about a nuclear power plant disaster, was dismissed by the nuclear power industry as being "sheer fiction". Twelve days after the film was released, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station experienced a partial meltdown.
grYWW TIL about Ben Montgomery, a former slave who bought the plantation of his former owner, Joseph Davis. Davis was the brother of Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America.
9YjnD TIL about Gladys Bentley, a lesbian blues singer who wore men's clothing and added dirty lyrics to songs
b9Ve0 TIL about ultramarathoner Jasmin Paris, who won the 268-mile Spine race in 2019 in a record setting 83 hours 12 minutes, while stopping at aid stations to express milk for her daughter.