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TIL that “Huckberry Finn” was one of the most frequently banned books in the 1990s for “obscenity, atheism, bad grammar, coarse manners, low moral tone, and antisouthernism”.

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epEp4 TIL that during a power outage in 1994, LA residents made numerous calls to 911 reporting strange silver clouds hovering in the sky. They were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
Rmv7 TIL that Pears and Almonds are members of the rose family.
rNRW1 TIL that there is an enormous 1,300 year old set of ruins on an island in the middle of a lake in the middle of Siberia and archaeologists are unsure why it's there
nxYd TIL humans have an arc in the foot as a need to bear more weight due to bipedalism, apes on the other hand have flat feet.
KO5oa TIL about Elina Powell, a black nurse who served during WWII. She was assigned to work at a POW camp, like most African-American nurses at the time, and fell in love with a German POW there. They married and had children despite it being illegal in both the U.S and Germany during this time period.