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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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QVBd TIL Magpies are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test.
0wM9y TIL that despite the English identifying themselves historically with the Anglo-Saxon invaders that conquered Britain, only about 1/3rd of the modern English genome can be traced to these Germanic tribes.
X0Zyk TIL of "Chung Ling Soo" (William Ellsworth Robinson) Who Died On Stage Unsuccessfully Performing the "Bullet Catch" Trick
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