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TIL that mammalian evolution has been fundamentally driven by viruses

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WkBlo Today I learned Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Had two different paths. MLK was about protesting and assimilating into white culture and Malcolm X was about Just being proud to be black. Both were assassinated. MLK by a white man, and Malcolm X by his own people.
bPw9 TIL: “Tall poppy syndrome” is a term used to describe a social phenomenon in which people of genuine merit are resented, attacked, cut down, or criticized because their talents or achievements elevate them above or distinguish them from their peers.
LQEZ TIL Banana peels help acne
PYAGe TIL about Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River and a former slave. Over the course of his career, he had made over three thousand arrest, never got wounded (except for his hat and belt), and became one of Judge Issac Parker's most valued deputies.
Oo5Z7 TIL of “telling the bees”, a European custom in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper’s lives, such as births or marriages. If the custom was forgotten then it was believed the bees would leave the hive or stop producing honey.