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

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8aBpX TIL the definition of grams and kilograms have been flipped; the kilogram is the SI unit of mass, and the gram is defined as 1/1000th of a kilogram.
woXoY TIL Newton's phrase about standing on the shoulders of giants dates back to at least 1159. John of Salisbury wrote then that "we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature."
groLX TIL that in 2013 the LAPD got called to the infinity ward offices and got in a stand off with a life size statue of ghost from modern warfare 2
DypV TIL there is an agency representing tattoo artists who are suing the makers of the game NBA2K for recreation of tattoos on players in their game without prior consent.
Z8Vgp TIL in 1998 Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped to ruin his career.