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TIL a man in Alabama has spent three decades building a stone wall by hand to honor his great-great-grandmother, a Yuchi Indian woman who was forced along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma following the slaughter of her family by whites and then spent 5 years walking more than 1,000 miles back home.

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rZO0 TIL Mean World Syndrome is a phenomenon whereby violence-related content of mass media makes viewers believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is.
wlPM TIL some large telescopes use liquid mercury for a reflective mirror instead of glass. The rotating liquid assumes the paraboloidal shape regardless of the container’s shape and has a much lower cost than traditional glass mirrors.
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