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TIL Mississippi had a secret police from 1956-1977, designed to fight desegregation

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jNnGR TIL about the moon landing’s ‘Human Computers’. Who were a group of women, who held math and science degrees, and were responsible for managing the moon landing’s incredibly complex calculations. They also did it real-time, by written hand, and were faster than any technology available before 1970.
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