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TIL more Black households move into white neighborhoods when the share of rentals grows, increasing diversity.

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b0lE TIL a scientist in the 60s gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
1BPX TIL the first Sci-fi novel was written in 2nd Century AD, and featured a group of sailors whose ship is caught in a waterspout and sent to the moon.
EgV0P TIL that pyrocumulus clouds are formed by intense heat from wildfires or volcanic eruptions. These clouds, also known as fire clouds, develop when the heat from the fire causes air to rise rapidly, condensing moisture into towering clouds.
GKZJ TIL: NPR’s Car Talk stopped in 2012, but have enough material to broadcast for eight more years
0dbVL TIL that in 2024 a construction company built an entire family home on the wrong lot in Hawaii after miscounting the number of telephone poles on the land. They then sold the home without the landowner knowing.