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TIL school teachers have been using red ink to correct assignments for at least 3900 years

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9wVDX TIL most black neighborhoods in Wisconsin are actually prisons.
1a1lW TIL China has 7 coffee shops that are a blatant ripoffs of Starbucks, competing with actual Starbucks without any legal consequences.
XEAkQ TIL the Catholic Church purchased the area of the KKK headquarters and turned it into a church
5YBbn TIL the Beastie Boys were immensely sexist and homophobic in their early career. However, upon hearing criticism of this, they apologized for it multiple times(one of them through a song) since and, while not listed in article, have been activists for social causes and battling bigotry.
Ywed TIL a domestic sheep’s wool will just keep growing and growing forever, if humans don’t cut it off