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TIL Despite the Supreme Court declaring such laws unconstitutional in 1967, Alabama did not remove a clause in its state constitution prohibiting interracial marriage until 2000

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n5Nb TIL Lipizzaner horses, known for their classical dressage performances, are born black or brown and take about 6 years to turn completely white
8amKL TIL In 1953, the newspaper Liberation published a death-bed confession by a Parisian roofer that he had murdered Zola by blocking the chimney of his house
yQdav TIL About John List, who killed his entire family in 1971. The murders were so precisely planned, it took a month for anyone to notice. He was caught in 1989, after a forensic artist created a lifelike bust of him, analysing Lists’ personality to get it right, and it was on America’s Most Wanted.
1anld TIL About the Long Depression, which was a period of major economic downturn directly following the Second Industrial Revolution. It was dubbed the Great Depression until the crash of 1929.
EGP7 TIL Marcus Garvey suffered a non-fatal stroke, and a newspaper incorrectly wrote his obituary, which reported that he died “broke, alone, and unpopular.” After reading this, he suffered another stroke that killed him.