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TIL in 2010 that following an uproar after a mixed race student was not allowed to run for 6th grade class reporter, a Mississippi school district scrapped a long standing system of student elections which only allowed students of certain races to run for certain class positions.

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QJMZ6 TIL Roman slaves wore collars of iron with messages like a modern dog collar, for example this one, which reads "I have run away; hold me. When you shall have returned me to my master, Zoninus, you will receive a solidus"
78Bvb TIL of Mary Somerville, a Scottish writer, polymath and the world's first ever scientist, the person for whom the word 'scientist' was invented. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was admitted as one of the first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society
nWXBb TIL a nuclear accident at SL-1 created a burst of steam so powerful that a piston-like effect threw the whole 26 000 pound nuclear reactor vessel over nine feet upward. The cause of the incident isn't known because the workers didn't explain why they removed a necessary rod prior to the explosion.
nWV79 TIL a sheepdog named Casper fought off 11 coyotes for half an hour, Killed 8 of them and survived with a severe neck wound and a missing.
e0Byk TIL that in the "Cookie Monster" study, experimenters randomly appointed one person the leader of a small group. When an experimenter brought in a plate of 5 cookies, the "leaders" were more likely to take a second cookie, and to eat with their mouths open and get crumbs all over the place.