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TIL-Blackface minstrelsy was the first uniquely American form of theater

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YplKZ TIL if you were a botanist who wanted to publish about a new plant, you had to write the diagnosis (its distinguishing characteristics) in LATIN. This requirement was only repealed in 2011.
oRwPY TIL: you can plant tomato slices in pots and sprout your own tomato plants.
R7Nw7 TIL that the first non-white person in the NBA was Wataru Misaka a 5’7” Japanese-American point guard. Drafted in 1947, he’s still alive and turns 95 today!
y7b8 TIL John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ was originally called 'Something that Happened’ because nobody can really be blamed for the story’s events.
Oo0E4 TIL about Russia's "spacecraft graveyard" in the Altai region, where over 2,500 tons of space debris -- some dozens of feet long -- have rained down since the start of the Space Age. As new space junk falls, locals rush to raid the wreckage for precious metals they can sell.