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TIL New York’s public schools are now more segregated than Mississippi’s.

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0d7kv TIL McDonald's used to make fried apple pies until they were replaced by the modern baked version in 1992 due to "health concerns." Today their original fried apple pies are only available at all McDonald’s locations in Hawaii and one location in California
XElbQ TIL In May 1953, scientists in the British Ministry of Defence tested the nerve-gas sarin on the 20-year-old Ronald Maddison, who had unwittingly volunteered for the experiment thinking it would involve some very minor tests.
X0ooE TIL mathematician Bernhard Riemann Riemann laid the foundations of the mathematics of general relativity. He also refused to publish incomplete work, and after his death, his housekeeper discarded many unfinished papers. Due to this, some deep insights from him may have been lost forever.
7rPWL TIL the last known grizzly bear in Colorado died when she attacked a bow hunter named Ed Wiseman. Wiseman played dead at first but decided to fight back when the bear did not stop mauling him. He picked up a loose arrow and stabbed the bear in her jugular.
E1pJP TIL that in the 1960s, over 320,000 baby teeth were sent by parents to be tested for radioactive isotope strontium-90. They showed that children born after large scale nuclear testing had begun showed levels 50 times higher than children born before large scale testing.