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TIL: the eye may have evolved, independently, as many as 40 times

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gMVX7 TIL about segregation academies, private schools founded in the US after Brown v. BoE to preserve segregation. They persist, segregated to this day, many segregation academies have student bodies that are >84% white in school districts where the student body is as little as <10% white.
JYdwk TIL In 1803, the Igbo people (ethnic group from Nigeria) managed to take control of their slave ship. They committed mass suicide instead of submitting to slavery in the United States.
d8YNB TIL Air Sports has an International Governing Body- Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
R7xj4 TIL "Dove" and "Pigeon" are names for the same bird. They're both names for members of the same family, Columbidae
VMG7B TIL, Larry Walters rode a lawn chair attached to helium balloons to 16,000 feet and using a pellet gun, he controlled his descent by firing the gun at the balloons, popping them one by one.