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TIL parents filed an ethics complaint against a High School Biology teacher for using the word “vagina” while teaching reproduction.

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kOvK7 TIL that Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.
JYWrB TIL about the Kessler Syndrome: as more debris is sent up into orbit, more collisions occur that creates more debris leading a cascade of dangerous space debris that could trap us on this planet forever.
BrYeK TIL that in a "computational data-centric analysis" of the most significant figures in history "adjusted for recency bias", Ronald Reagan was ranked 32nd, above Paul the Apostle, Genghis Khan, Thomas Edison, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Galileo, and Buddha
GYmZN TIL that Ohio and Michigan once went to war over Toledo
e0pW5 TIL that between 1664 and 1967, America had miscegenation laws that prevented interracial marriage, and that the first marriage licenses were intended to allow the government to enforce this law