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TIL That Oneida Silverware was Created by a Polyamorous Communist Society in 1800's NY known as the Oneida Community

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7AvO TIL that mouse sperm team up in a “Sperm Train” to get to the fertilization site faster.
9a8m TIL that extensive child poverty is the main reason America’s children score poorly on international education measurements. When you measure the test scores of American schools with a child poverty rate of less than 20%, American children outperform every nation in the world.
neQPG TIL some of the slaves freed from Charleston SC during the civil war organized a March at a race track where union soldiers had died in what is known as the first memorial day observance (a year before other states, and 3 years prior to the first national observance).
O16a TIL New Mercedes-Benz cars will play a short blast of white/pink noise just before an unavoidable crash, forcing the occupant’s ears to turn off for a moment, preventing the hearing loss normally caused by the crash itself or airbags.
x6lEB TIL the American taxpayer helped pay for Coca Cola's bottling plants worldwide so they could expand internationally during WW2