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TIL: Garbology is a field of study

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Mennb TIL about 'The Lost Year.' On September 12, 1958 Gov. Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas high schools for a year rather than allowing desegregation to continue. Teachers and administrators were required to fulfill their contractual obligations and appear for work in empty schools.
DQKAv TIL that the official U.S. agency (USAGM) during 2023 had an audience of 420 million people worldwide in all its media.
XQXk TIL An Elephant, Kosik, can speak 5 words in Korean, “sit, no, yes and lie down.” He creates the words by putting his trunk in his mouth and vibrating it. He is the only elephant scientifically proven to speak human words.
WkyXX TIL that an individual red knot bird, tagged as B-95, has flown the distance to the moon and halfway back over his lifetime.
J1X6V TIL Rare Earth Elements are actually fairly abundant. The rarest of REEs (thulium) is still 125 times more prevalent in the earth's crust than gold - and the most prolific REE (cerium) is 15,000 times more abundant. The name really refers to difficulty of finding large deposits or seams.