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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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6Ebr7 TIL Mississippi, Kentucky-in-Africa and the Republic of Maryland were colonies that later included in Liberia established by freed slaves from America
69WbW TIL about Intercollegiate Meat Judging. Where American Universities compete against one another to see which team can best evaluate cuts of beef, pork and lamb based on criteria such as quality, yield grading, and eye-balling the quantity of fat v. muscle.
PYxbZ TIL A 170-person Swiss infantry unit once got lost during training exercises and inadvertently crossed 1.5km into Liechtenstein. The Swiss army later informed Liechtenstein of the incursion and offered official apologies, to which a ministry spokesperson responded, "No problem, these things happen."
kBje TIL pubic lice are going extinct because their natural habitats are being destroyed
JY6Y1 TIL that the reason there isn’t a Category 6 storm is because there isn’t anything left to destroy after a Category 5.