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TIL that the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) led to the cancellation of Reading Rainbow

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yVkKV TIL about Saint-Malo, Brittany. This city on the French coast has some of the highest tides in Europe, rising as high as 40 feet during parts of the year, and the water withdrawing hundreds of yards. A sea wall, built in the 17th century, protects the city from the tides.
DQGNg TIL Alice Mitchell & Freda Ward were an affluent teenage lesbian couple in 1890s southern USA. They became tabloid personalities when Mitchell slit the throat of Ward in 1892. Mitchell spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital until her death in 1898.
XE4PR TIL The African Lungfish has the ability to survive outside of water for up to a year.
J1Qnj TIL The Canary Islands are named from the Latin word for dog and not the bird!
BDbx TIL actor James Hong has acting credit for every year between 1954 and 2016