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TIL that due to clerical errors, Mississippi didn’t ratify the abolition of slavery until 2013.

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gMRvb TIL a 1991 New York Supreme Court case found that “as a matter of law”, a house which had been sold was officially considered haunted. The owners had sold the house without disclosing they believed it to be haunted and had advertised it as such, lowering the property value.
4XBya TIL the game Chinese Checkers is neither Chinese nor Checkers
5YAZB TIL in 1957 a man crashed his military plane in the Sierra Nevadas and was lost. He emerged 54 days later and had a tale of survival, but with no wreckage found, people thought he sold the plane to the Russians. His wife left him, he was cast out. Years after he died, the wreckage was finally found.
4XOK5 TIL there is a song called December by Earth, Wind & Fire, which is an official parody of the song "September" but about Christmas.
m1O8v TIL that Fermina Orduña was the first woman in Spain to register a patent in her own name