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Z8NjR 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
0w6PN TIL that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, women turned their flour sacks into into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household necessities. So flour companies started packing their flour in bags with pretty patterns.
YvDW TIL in a part of southern India there is a custom for children to kill their parents when they get too old or if they can’t afford to take care of them.
e0xp4 TIL Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado in 20 years planted 2.7 million trees to afforest part of The Atlantic Forest & resulted in 1,500 acres of rainforest being recovered with 293 of plants, 15 reptiles, 172 bird, 15 amphibian & 33 mammal species have returned.
O6L4 TIL Maleficent wasn’t originally in Sleeping Beauty. The girl fell asleep due to a splinter. After, her grieving father abandons her in the house. A King finds and rapes her, then also abandons her. While unconscious, she gives birth to twins who wake her. The King returns later and they marry.