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TIL that bald eagles aren’t called “bald” because their head feathers make them appear bald but because the Old English word for white was “balde.”

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5YL0r TIL there is a Pakistan Blind Cricket Council that forms blind cricket teams and organizes games.
EvAP TIL South Africa is the only country to have ever developed its own nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantled them.
X0nMP TIL that lichens cover about 7% of the Earth's surface; about the same size as the Indian Ocean
rkd0 TIL: 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry.
XlwE TIL that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 entitled everyone to access accommodation, public transport, and theatres regardless of race or color. In 1883, this law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as being unconstitutional.