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TIL Massachusetts guaranteed access to all public schools to every child in 1845, after a group of black whalers from Nantucket, accustomed to the relative equality they had on whaling ships, began a boycott and petition campaign.

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R5Daw TIL that Lego's first animated TV show was titled "Edward and Friends" in 1987, created for the BBC2 network. Featuring Edward Elephant (of Lego's "Fabuland" theme), it used traditional stop-motion puppets instead of real Lego elements, and had a 5 minute runtime with only 26 episodes produced.
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BrJZb TIL The “Feast of the Wine” was a festival in Ancient Greece celebrating the “Month of the New Wine," using the minerals gypsum & lime to reduce the acidity of the wine.
Z8rnY TIL In a temperate climate, a human body can completely decompose into a skeleton in 3 weeks to several years. If undisturbed by animals, acids in fertile soils can dissolve human skeletons in around 20 years. In sand or neutral soil, the skeleton can remain intact for hundreds of years.