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TIL that the town seal of Whitesboro, NY depicts a white settler strangling a native american. In 2009, city officials maintained that “The seal will stay just the way it is.”

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6Ex9W TIL each person who becomes 100 years old receives a congratulatory letter signed by the President with a gift cheque of €2,540 in Ireland. This custom is called the "Centenarian Bounty" and also applies to foreign national residents of the country.
wo09E TIL that the British reggae music group UB40 got their band name from an unemployment benefit form for people under 40 years of age in the United Kingdom.
RA8a TIL that the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.
OGYaX TIL that in 2014, a scientific paper was published with the phrase "get me off your f****g mailing list" repeated many times. The authors helped exposing what is known as a "predatory journal".
a8MdJ TIL about Walter F. White, an NAACP leader for over 25 years who passed as white, infiltrated lynching rings, and architected Brown v. Board of Education. Despite controversy surrounding his methods, his work exposed injustices and advanced civil rights.