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TIL a woman was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for randomly shoving an 87 year old woman down in NYC who turned out to be a broadway singing coach

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GyE4 TIL in 1987, Christian missionaries visited an isolated Brazillian tribe that had not had hardly any contact with the outside world, and in the process introduced viruses that caused 25% of the tribe’s population to die in the following six years.
Or4g TIL The show Sesame Street will be adding a new muppet called Julia who has autism. This is the first new character on Sesame Street in over a decade and the first muppet with a mental disorder.
PYZME TIL: There was an estimated 2.5 million people living in the original thirteen colonies in 1776
J1gK1 TIL Astronomers image the Sun in detail using hydrogen-alpha telescopes with monochrome cameras rather than colour as they can make full use of their sensors. This means processing software is used to make the Sun appear in colours like yellow and orange
n0RB TIL in the 70s, while Watergate was raging, a far more widely affecting scandal was being exposed: COINTELPRO – decades of FBI abuse of power and assassinations against political groups and individuals, incl. Martin Luther King, students, pacifists, women’s rights campaigners and notable Americans.