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TIL VR has been shown to effectively reduce racism in various research studies.

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loAJV TIL Of Rainbow Valley, a region of Mount Everest ironically named after the rainbow of parkas worn by the corpses of failed climbers unable to be retrieved
5YXan TIL The Donner party refused food from Native Americans who then kept their distance when they witnessed the Donner party resort to cannibalism
vPZQ7 TIL as of 2013, war criminal and former Liberia president Charles Taylor is serving a 50-year sentence in a prison in Durham, England
WknX TIL in 1970 a disgruntled postgraduate student deliberately infected his roommates with Ascaris suum, a parasitic nematode. This was the first documented human infection by this species.
0wJly TIL that The King's School, a day and boarding school in Canterbury, Kent, England is the oldest continuously operating school in the world. It was founded in 597 AD by Augustine of Canterbury a century after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West as a medieval cathedral school.