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TIL that Cyberdyne, the company responsible for the genocidal robots in the Terminator, is a real company that creates artificial robotic limbs.

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kOJaW TIL that U.S. paper money "utilizes green ink on the backs, but faces use black, color-shifting, metallic ink, and other inks which are specially formulated and blended by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing"
xVoY1 TIL that racial segregation in the American South didn't begin right after the Civil War; it was imposed in the 1890s when rich whites in the South feared the Populist movement bringing poor whites and blacks together. Segregation literally stopped the two sides from legally gathering together.
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