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TIL under a 2011 program in Alabama, first-time nonviolent offenders could avoid jail by going to church

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BrwPL TIL on 1838, in order to pay off debts of Georgetown College, the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 slaves from their plantations. The buyers were Louisiana sugarcane planters.
NZAP TIL there was an experiment done on Caucasian 3rd graders in 1968 called the “blue-eyed/brown-eyed” exercise which segregated the children by eye color. The exercise was held the day after Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination with the purpose of teaching students the effects of being a minority.
RpWw TIL that there is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, thats written language is still completely unknown today
DeaD TIL Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny and others) was involved in a near fatal accident that left him in a coma for 3 weeks. As he began to regain consciousness his first words were “What’s up doc?”
O6ZR TIL that the holocaust survivor Ellie Weisel lost his life savings in the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme, and that his charity lost $15 million