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90N6 TIL The term “grandfather clause” comes from the Jim Crow era. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and quizzes were designed to keep blacks from voting. But these standards barred poor whites from voting as well. The solution was to pass laws that allowed descendants of past voters to be “grandfathered in”.
g68y TIL That there is a Japanese word that refers to “the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up with other unread books”
oyLR TIL: There is an intact cask of plutonium dioxide on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean because Apollo 13 failed to land on the moon
b9dQQ TIL: Jean Moulin, Resistance hero, cut his own throat rather than incriminate innocent soldiers. The Nazis had tried to force him to sign a false document and he didn't want to risk breaking under torture.
OonxX TIL the selling of human hair extensions is a multi-billion dollar industry, and this common practice means there are tons of rich girls walking around wearing poor girls' hair.