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TIL that while blacks only make up 13% of the US population, they commit over 50% of all murders.

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e06jJ TIL Sesame Street was one banned for nearly a month in Mississippi during the early 70s due to its black and hispanic cast members
AxLa TIL Canada changed liquor laws to start sales at 5 a.m for the Olympic gold medal hockey game.
J8Vm TIL author George Burns wrote a book called “How to live to be 100”. He was born in 1896 and died in 1996.
VBrjp TIL that until the Civil War, American currency was made only the form of silver or gold coins. Though the colonial Continental Congress briefly issued paper currency, it wasn't until 1862 that Congress authorized the use of paper currency as legal tender for any debts
rNLP1 TIL of Wilfred Stamp, who has the record for the shortest length of time holding a peerage. He and his father were killed by the same bomb during The Blitz, and due to how Britain treats simultaneous deaths, his father was considered to have died first. The family paid inheritance taxes twice.