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TIL about Perrine, Florida - In 1948, after it elected a black mayor the all-white city council dissolved the town

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d8RmB TIL in the original opening sequence of “The Simpsons”, Maggie is rung up at a price of $847.63, which represented the monthly cost of raising a child at the time.
Br6kK TIL of the Okapi, a cousin of the giraffe, with stripes like a zebra on its hind legs and scent glands on the bottom of its feet to track other neighboring okapi.
XEank TIL moviegoers seeing "13 Ghosts" in 1960 could choose if they wanted to see the ghosts or not. The ghosts were added with a red filter on scenes with a blue filter. People were given viewers with red and blue cellophane, and depending on which one they looked through could "remove" the ghosts.
a8jw9 TIL the Cretaceous-era turtle Kallokibotion bajazidi’s scientific name literally means “beautiful box of Bajazid” and that Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, the paleontologist who named the species, named it that because the shape of the turtle’s shell reminded him of his lover Bajazid Doda’s butt.
5YV9n TIL in Kenya (and eastern Africa) people accused of witchcraft are beaten and burned alive, and such lynchings are on the rise