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TIL: There is a ½ mile long wall in Detroit originally built to separate blacks from whites

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VBpRZ Today I learned the person that attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford in 1975 is not only still alive, but has been out of prison for 16 years.
yVBna TIL in 1966 a relatively unknown American musician joined legendary guitarist Eric Clapton onstage and performed "Killing Floor," a song Clapton himself deemed too difficult to perform live. This musician was Jimi Hendrix and this event became subsequently known as "The day Hendrix killed God."
90KB TIL there are “heater bees” who keep their body temperatures 10 degrees hotter than other bees in the colony to keep the hive warm. They also can vary the temperature around developing pupae to determine what kind of honey bee they will become: either forager bees or “house keeper” bees.
XJRj TIL in 1799 a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina & used it as a doorstop. It was gold.
bwjN TIL that a hunter in wyoming killed a bear by shoving his fist down the bear’s throat and pinched the jugular vein with his mouth