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TIL about Blockbusting, a method used during the “white flight” era, where real-estate agents would fake a black person moving into a white neighborhood to scare the rest of the residents into hastily selling their houses at a loss. They then charged high prices selling the houses to black families

yQnxX TIL Luxembourg's version of Superman is Superjhemp, who unlike the American version has a sizeable belly and draws his powers from eating cheese and drinking beer. He also flies around with his hands in his pockets, "because every real Luxembourger has his hands in his pockets".
rNAvw TIL Mississippian Native Americans had a cosmological concept similar to Norse mythology, complete with a World Tree
epj64 TIL that Venus flytraps only close their jaws if two of the “hairs” in their “mouth” are touched within ~20 seconds of each other, and only begin digestion if five hairs are triggered. This helps to ensure they only expend their energy trying to consume live prey.
DQNOP TIL ending a sentence with '/s' is called a 'Tone Indicator'; a set of 60+ symbols that explicitly state the intention or intonation of a message, when it might be considered otherwise ambiguous.
OGxO4 TIL: Rachel Wall was the last woman to be hanged in MA in the 1700s. She tricked sailors by screaming for help, when people came to help, her crew would kill them and steal their goods. She was later arrested for trying to rip a girl's tongue out and theft. She requested to be tried as a pirate.