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TIL that Michelson-Morley experiments (to prove a theory competing with special relativity) are still being conducted, with the first one dating back to 1881

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GYRjg TIL of Buffalo Child Long Lance, an American journalist, writer and actor from North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes. He was a darling of Hollywood cocktail parties until it was discovered that he was part black, a fact that ended his career.
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