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TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.

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16OPD TIL Denver International Airport (Colorado, USA) occupies 52.4 square miles (136 sq km), making DIA larger in land area (excluding water) than the US cities of Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.
kJVx4 TIL that the youngest person to jump off the golden gate bridge to commit suicide in 1945 was a 5 year old little girl named marilyn demont. She was influenced by her father who jumped in seconds after. without protest she climbed over the railing and without looking back, jumped.
N74O1 An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches in 2016. The reason? Scientists think cockroach milk could be the next superfood.
5VVp8 Til new hampshire is the only U.S. state that doesnt require seatbelts