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TIL that racially segregated school proms were still happening in the US as late as 2013

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koPd TIL the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Program is known as CAN-FAP
wLQVo TIL that since the 1980's, the Swedish navy has been picking up strange unidentified sounds. They thought Russian submarines were to blame. However, the noise turned out to be herring farts.
4XDla TIL A study of aging American-Japanese men in Hawaii conclusively showed a direct connection between short height and long life. The folks that were 5-2 and shorter lived the longest
OoKb6 TIL that every child in the United States, regardless of disability, is entitled to a "free appropriate public education," in the "least restrictive environment." If your local school district does not propose such a program for your child, you can request a "due process hearing."
ZRBQ TIL that dolphins are not uniquely intelligent; chickens perform similarly on the same intelligence tests used to push for legislation to designate dolphins “non-human persons”, & the evidence that dolphins are capable of complex emotions, such as empathy, have been inconclusive.