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TIL that in 1895 a white man in Louisiana was lynched by a white crowd for an attempt to lynch a black woman

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R7ln1 TIL Sir Isaac Newton's dog set his laboratory on fire, ruining his 20 years of research. When he saw what the dog had done, Newton is said to have exclaimed, "O Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done."
8QJ8 TIL that between 15% and 58% of the Catholic clergy in the US is estimated to be gay (a number indisputably above the national average), and when HIV was still confined mostly to the gay community, AIDS-related deaths among priests was more than 6 times higher than among the general population.
loLoK TIL the world is running out of sand. It is necessary for making glass and concrete which makes it the second most used resource globaly. And since desert sand is mostly unusable, it's not as abundant as most people think.
MeNaW TIL there's an Australian moth (Uraba lugens) that wears its previous heads as a hat. They call it the Mad Hatterpillar.
R7J6w TIL that Canada's first historical Thanksgiving meal predated the American one by 43 years.