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TIL of the "Silent Protest" where up to 15,000 black folks protested lynchings across the country by marching in silence in New York

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QNJBp TIL that the San Francisco restaurant Casa Sanchez closed in 2012, but people who got free tacos for life because they got tattooed with their logo can get free pupusas from the restaurant that took over their lease
yWxw TIL the West African Ebola outbreak is linked to people eating bats.
4kdaw TIL in the early 80's Disney had a sci-fi rock band called Halyx. The musicians wore spacey costumes, the bass player was a wookie, a keyboardist drove a mobile space ship, and they sang a song called "Jailbait".
wLmp6 TIL Genetic mutations among Tibetan individuals helps them to live and work in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, which features elevations as high as 14,800 feet. One of these variants was inherited from an extinct group of humans known as the Denisovans, a sister species to the Neanderthals.
a84N TIL when a library cat named Muffin was “evicted” in Putnam Valley, NY, 2 members of the community removed the library from their wills and the library lost $80,000 in future revenue