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TIL of James Reeb, a Universal Unitarian minister and Civil Rights activist who was murdered by segregationists while heading to the Selma to Montgomery marches. Despite three men being tried, they were acquitted by an all-white jury, and his murder remains officially unsolved.

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O1V1 TIL: 93% of the Great Barrier Reef is now damaged by coral bleaching
xVlmb TIL a Maine citizen once randomly decided to become a hermit and stayed as one for over 27 years. He committed up to a thousand minor burglaries and he became so prolific that people started leaving shopping lists for him to write down what he wanted.
GYglN TIL Alexander Graham Bell wanted to abolish sign language and believed deaf people to be inferior. He proposed many ideas to breed a more “noble man” and reduce the intermarrying of the “dead and dumb”.
OpZg TIL the University of Texas sniper, Charles Whitman, who killed 15 people from a tower in 1966, sought psychiatric help on multiple occasions in the months before his murder spree. He asked in a note that his brain be examined after his death to find what was wrong. A brain tumor was indeed found.
kO6b1 TIL that there is patch of snow in Scotland that has disappeared only a total of seven times in the last 300 years. Nicknamed the Sphinx it is said to be the most permanent and closely studied patch of snow in the British Isles.