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TIL that Alabama didn’t overturn their ban on interracial marriage until the year 2000.

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9wQDm TIL the Japanese turned the third of their superbattleships (after Yamato and Musashi) into the largest aircraft carrier ever built at the time. After four years of construction and enormous cost, she left the shipyard and was immediately sunk by a submarine.
nWw4P TIL the “like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” jingle was written by Barry Manilow
7m9r TIL that shards of obsidian, or volcanic glass, can be refined to have a cutting edge only 3 nanometers thick. This is over 1300 times thinner than some scalpels.
BrENW TIL that Snoopy's doghouse is always shown from the side so as to never reveal the interior, leaving what's inside to the reader's imagination. There was only one exception: on May 8, 1960, the inside of the doghouse can be seen. It's just an empty doghouse.
pY4mN TIL the Vaquita are the smallest of all living cetaceans and the most endangered with fewer than 10 alive.