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TIL Asian female/White male marriages are the least likely to divorce in any interracial marriage pairing.

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8LVb TIL Nancy Green, born into slavery in 1834, was hired in 1890 to represent “Aunt Jemima”, an advertising character named after a song from a minstrel show. In 1893 Green was introduced as Aunt Jemima at the World’s Columbian Exposition, where it was her job to operate a pancake-cooking display.
4XA8b TIL that in 1963, contractor Amos Peters constructed a small suspension bridge to facilitate safe squirrel crossing over a busy street in Longview, Washington. “The Nutty Narrows” is now on the National Historic Register.
vPb9R TIL that despite being their enemy, George Washington was admired by the British people during the Revolutionary War. The members of Parliament even said he was better than the British generals.
ADjw4 TIL of Kinscem, a Hungarian Thoroughbred mare, who won all of her 54 races in the late 1800s. She remains the winningest Thoroughbred racehorse of all time.
N7GgP TIL then 13 year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout in San Francisco, was the first Girl Scout to make news by selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary. She sold 117 boxes in 2 hours.