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TIL a 23 year old woman with terminal brain cancer was successfully cryogenically frozen after receiving funding from Redditors and Futurists.

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e956 TIL switching to a national electricity grid instead of 130 regional grids would save $47 billion yearly and make utilization of solar energy more efficient
oR5rW TIL a 2007 Consumer Reports survey of 1,057 participants found that on average American women owned 19 pairs of shoes (although they only wore 4 pairs regularly), with 15% owning 30+ pairs. In addition, 43% said they had been at least moderately injured by shoes before; 8% reported sprains or breaks
JYnv1 TIL the longest filibuster in US history (a process of delaying a bill passing by speaking in the Senate until you want to stop) was over 24 hours (24 hours and 18 minutes). This was an attempt to delay The Civil Rights Act of 1957.
aw649 TIL Black GIs coming to wartime Britain found a relatively liberal attitude to segregation. They still weren't allowed to mix with American whites, but had no restriction on mixing with British whites.
PYZDJ TIL There is an autochthonous, more than three centuries old, population of black Africans in certain pockets of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina