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TIL that steam locomotives were still being manufactured for industrial use in 1999

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jZmv TIL: The 1938 labor law giving protections to working children excludes agriculture. As a result approximately 500,000 children pick ¼ of the food produced in the U.S.
jN7Aa TIL one of television’s first interracial kisses, between Star Trek’s Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura, was originally supposed to be between Spock and Uhura. However, when William Shatner (Captain Kirk) heard, he said 'If anybody is gonna get to kiss Lieutenant Uhura it’s gonna be me.’
1a594 TIL of Jane Elliott, a teacher who divided her class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed. The brown-eyed group were told they were less intelligent, the blue-eyed superior, the brown-eyed accepted their lower position and the blue-eyed became more arrogant
dQ9r TIL there’s more than 4 times as many cattle in South Dakota as there are people
X9pE TIL in the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.