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TIL: The first black applicant to the then all white University of Mississippi was committed to an insane asylum for being crazy enough to apply (1958, Clennen King).

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v19QL TIL that Sidepony Express Music Festival, in a small mining and border town Bisbee, AZ, is known as a music festival for musicians. There are often over 100 bands from all over the Southwest, and they play 45 minute sets, back to back, at all the music venues in town:
nge7 TIL There is no month where there isn’t a chance of frost in Minnesota.
4rlN TIL Supermarket Costco cashiers make on average $20 an hour and are happier than facebook employees…
4aN6 TIL The Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad
v17EL TIL the James Webb Space Telescope is so sensitive it could theoretically detect the heat signature of a bumble bee at the distance of the moon.