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TIL that the brown paper bag test is a term in the African American community to discriminate against darker skinned black people by comparing their skin tone to a brown paper bag. Many were barred from having access to resources and public spaces because of it.

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78QnP TIL life expectancy in the US is at a 26 year low due to COVID-19 and other factors. The decline in life expectancy since 2019 is one of the steepest in recorded history.
Xn1X TIL Pill bugs are actually crustaceans, not insects
b9Akp TIL, A Soviet dog called Strelka was the first to go to space and come back alive. She had 6 puppies and Nikita Khrushchev gifted one of them to JFK. (It was checked for listening devices first).
Z6NR TIL a community of monks in the Austrian Alps in the 16th century invented a method of painting on canvas made from spider webs, and today less than 100 known examples exist.
Bwwk TIL In under 20 years the Aral Sea has shrunk to ten percent of its original size and is so salty that barely any life form remains. The Russians were taught to believe that the sea was an “error of nature” and therefore pointless