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TIL a majority (52.8%) of Mexican-Americans self identify as white.

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j6Zrp TIL Churchill, Manitoba has a Polar Bear Jail
Y7aQx TIL - That during Apartheid in South Africa you were forbidden to have relations with someone of another race. The Boers developed the "Pencil Test"; if a pencil would stay in your hair when pushed in you were declared as "black" and could only have relations with other "blacks".
78VOO TIL the US federal government captures and sells excess wild horses to the public
407R TIL the original Ghostbusters trailer featured a 1-800 number, not a 555 number, which led to a prerecording of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. They got 1,000 calls per hour, 24 hours a day, for six weeks.
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