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TIL People blew up schools and planned to blow up school buses with kids in them over textbooks they didn’t agree with in West Virginia

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E1Pr7 TIL that the dolphin brain is even more “folded” than humans’ and was this way millions of years before the first appearance of humans. Scientists often measure intelligence by the number of brain “folds.”
AAWg TIL that the first fatal car accident occurred in 1896, when the victim was hit by a car moving at 4 mph (6.4km/h). The coroner reported: “I trust that this sort of nonsense will never happen again.”
9YbAX TIL of Recy Taylor, a black woman who was kidnapped and gang-raped by 6 white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite their confessions and going to trial twice, the men were never convicted.
wLL6 TIL that Rastafaris say “I and I” because they consider all people to be equal, instead of saying “We”.
ljla TIL Amazon pays its workers less than their equivalent at Walmart, barely above the federal poverty line.