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TIL that there's a town in Michigan called Zilwaukee, which was named so that people would confuse it with Milwaukee and move there to work

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XEMx8 TIL Alabama still hasn’t removed segregation from it’s constitution. Section 256: “Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race.”
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