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TIL Alabama’s state constitution still mandates racially segregated education, and the last effort to repeal this 6 months ago failed - again.

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gM87b TIL From mid-1700s til 1970s, countries & individual cities had "ugly laws" that deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself to public view."
e0BxL TIL Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' was banned in South Africa after schoolchildren started chanting itslyrics to protest an inferior educational system.
oR7JE TIL that free divers' heart rates can drop as low as 11 beats per minute(as low as that of diving seals, whales and dolphins), in order to preserve blood-oxygen levels
Z4ED TIL Keith Richards would help set up the elaborate speaker systems on stage for the Rolling Stones concerts, so they would have a secret place to sniff pharmeceutical cocaine during their performance.
avm9 TIL The land that the TV show “The Teletubbies” was filmed on, was flooded by the owner because of the volume of people who came to see it after the set closed for good.