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TIL about The Freedom Riders. Buses filled with black and white would travel to the south to test the law that banned segregation on interstate travel. They were attacked and firebombed then assaulted numerous times.

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gram7 TIL that there is a genetic contribution to cultural differences. There is a relationship between the degree of individualism-collectivism in a population and its gene pool.
VMg9k TIL of Winthrop Niles Kellogg. He attempted to "humanize" a baby chimpanzee by raising it alongside his infant son. The experiment had to be halted when, instead of humanizing the chimp, the young boy became more chimp-like.
b6r0N TIL NBC offered a role to James Gandolfini to replace Michael Scott on "The Office", but HBO paid him $3 million to not take the role
VgY4 TIL of Roza Shanina, a female Soviet sniper who fought in World War 2 and got 54 confirmed hits. Allied newspapers called her, “the unseen terror of East Prussia.”
J11LV TIL that hand boilers can indeed be used to measure blood pressure through the variations of temperature at different pressures.