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TIL Guinness was not suitable for vegetarians until 2018
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TIL in Memphis, Tennessee it is illegal for women to drive a car unless there is a man with a red flag in front of the car warning the other people on the road.
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TIL about segregation academies, private schools founded in the US after Brown v. BoE to preserve segregation. They persist, segregated to this day, many segregation academies have student bodies that are >84% white in school districts where the student body is as little as <10% white.
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TIL that he head of MGM referred to Judy Garland as his “little hunchback,” and forced her to wear caps on her teeth and rubber disks in her nose. She was given amphetamines and barbituates as a child actress. This lead to the lifelong self-esteem and drug problems that later killed her.
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TIL: That during World War II, the mathematician Oswald T. Avery discovered that DNA, not protein, carries genetic information. His work was initially ignored by the scientific community, but it later paved the way for the discovery of the DNA double helix.
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TIL that a fisherman in Florida hooked a swordfish so big that it dragged his boat for 20 miles and fought for eight hours before he could pull it in. It turned out to be the biggest swordfish ever caught in Florida waters.