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

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VBAWZ TIL electric razors are supposed to be oiled
YpwAZ TIL in 1966, model Nell Theobald garnered fame after she was attacked by a lion during a BMW photo shoot at the International Automobile Show. She used the money she received in the lawsuit settlement to intensify her obsessive stalking of opera singer Birgit Nilsson, following her around the globe.
VBQo8 TIL that Roald Dahl wrote a short story that predicted story-writing machines. In it, most authors end up signing contracts to let the machines write stories in their names, while a handful of authors struggle on. He ends by saying, “Give us strength, Oh Lord, to let our children starve.”
9YGeB TIL Former North American Quake Pro-gamer "Thresh" is credited with popularizing WASD key configuration in PC shooters
4Gjw TIL that Jimmy Carter’s daughter Amy attended majority African American public schools in Washington while he was president, not private schools like the children of most other recent presidents