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TIL that the town from the movie "Erin Brockovich" is still struggling from the same conditions that led to the original lawsuit.

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Bg0kr TIL that the Radio City Rockettes didn’t allow Black dancers in until 1987, claiming that their skin tone would distract from the group’s consistent look.
w1l6 TIL King James IV put twin babies on an island to see if the children would speak the language of Eden. Children developed a communication method but the experiment failed because no one else knew what language of Eden sounded like.
VMbDD TIL In 2016 Cards Against Humanity raises $100,000 to dig 'tremendous hole'
plZ8 TIL of the Voynich manuscript, a 246 page book that is filled with botanical illustrations along with written word that modern linguists have so far been incapable of deciphering. Attempts to identify the plants have likewise largely failed. Carbon dating places the book at around 1400 AD.
RDX4 TIL president Andrew Jackson was so drunk at his inauguration that he couldn’t finish his speech.