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TIL: While the FBI was searching for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner they found 8 other bodies of missing black men killed by the Klan.

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OG6mL TIL Since the brown treesnake has no natural predators or other controls on Guam, it multiplied rapidly and has virtually wiped out Guam’s native forest birds. The snakes also crawl on electrical lines and cause expensive power outages and electrical damage.
p8LAG TIL in 1911, inmates on death row played baseball for their lives. If they won, execution was delayed. If they lost, their execution went ahead as scheduled.
wa51 TIL The selective admissions process at universities was originally designed during the early 20th century to discriminate against Jews
RGM4 TIL that even though Sesame Street’s famous Pinball Number Count cartoon shorts went up to 12, only eleven segments were made. There was never a cartoon for 1.
LQLMV TIL Potassium chloride, a salt substitute for food often mixed with ordinary table salt to form low sodium salt, is used as the final drug in the sequence of execution by lethal injection