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TIL The last school that was desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi. This happened in 2016. The order to desegregate this school came from a federal judge, after decades of struggle. This case originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader

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kO8Om TIL that the Iroquois Confederacy declared war on Germany in 1917 during World War I and again in 1942 during World War II
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xjd5 TIL in 1983 Redondo Beach, CA passed a resolution to adopt a new Official Bird. They chose the Goodyear Blimp.