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TIL of 'Friendship Albums', a tradition among African-American women in the early 1800s from the middle/upper class. Empty books were passed around their circle and filled with philosophical, political or creative writing and art. Extremely rare antiques, only 5 such albums are known to exist today.

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9wAmB TIL Flowers, pinecones, shells, fruits, hurricanes and even spiral galaxies, all exhibit the Fibonacci sequence. Every number in the sequence is generated by adding together the two previous numbers. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…etc
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