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TIL Buzz Aldrin’s Mother’s maiden name was Moon

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LLnv TIL In German there is a word for when cables under the desk tangle and create a mess: Kabelsalat (Cable Salad)
LQ6VV TIL Alexander Clark sued and achieved the first successful school desegregation case in Iowa in 1868, 86 years before Brown v. Board of Education.
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LQO59 TIL that Penguins as we know them were named thus because they looked remarkably similar to Pinguinus Impennis. There's no relation. The OG Pinguinus Impennis were hunted to extinction in 1844.