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TIL there is a section running across the entire southeast US where blacks outnumber the whites called the “Black Belt”

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xjkw TIL:A captive shark, vomited up another, different shark, which had a human arm in it’s belly, and the arm was used to solve a murder.
PwAg TIL of Poe’s Law: No matter how genuine an article seems, without a clear hint one cannot know for sure if it is a Parody or a Serious extreme view.
BgoVb TIL Ampersand (&) was once considered 27th letter in the alphabet
oBQJ7 TIL about the Himalayan 'Skeleton Lake', a lake at an altitude of about 5000 m, known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons, the remains belonging to very different eras and to different distinct groups (Indian, South Asian and Mediterranean), whose cause of death remains a mystery though.
yQk0M TIL that in 1986, a organ transplant aircraft broke down in Fargo resulting in the governor summoning an F-4 Phantom to transport a heart to California for a recipient.