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TIL in 1970, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street because of its “highly integrated cast of children”.

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yQWWM TIL of Aurora, an exascale computer that neuroscientists plan to use to make a map of the human brain, or connectome. The brain has more connections than the milky way has stars; mapping it would represent the single largest dataset ever collected about anything in the history of the world.
JKr4 TIL “Jay” used to be slang for a foolish person. So when a pedestrian ignored street signs, he was referred to as a “jaywalker.”
RwPj TIL a homeless man lived for three years in the spaces between the girders of a drawbridge, complete with working TV and Playstation, holding on to the beams every time the bridge raised and lowered to keep from falling.
QN9ga TIL a gamergate is a mated worker ant that can reproduce sexually by laying fertilized eggs that will develop as females. There are 100–200 different species in which gamergates reproduce (roughly 1% of all ants) and in some species the queen caste has been completely replaced by gamergates
8eKya TIL that the word "mayday" comes from the French "m'aidez" for help me