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WyKd TIL that the New York City Public School System has over 1 million students, which means that if it was a city, it would make it the tenth biggest city in the U.S.
oARR TIL researchers are trying to get 2 gorillas who can use sign language to mate in the hope they’ll teach their offspring sign language too.
neK5b TIL Dorothy Parker gave her estate to Martin Luther King when she died. After he was killed, her estate was bequeathed to the NAACP. After many years of contestation, during which her ashes were kept in a filing cabinet, she now resides at NAACP headquarters as a Defender of Human and Civil Rights.
n7kY TIL John Harrison, the official taste-tester for Dreyer’s Ice Cream, has his tongue insured for $1,000,000.
R5BQ9 TIL that there are two kinds of freedom. A person alone in a desert has the perfect negative freedom to choose where to die. A person on a highway has the positive freedom to drive wherever they want, in large part because they don't have the negative freedom to drive on the wrong side of the road.