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TIL that Rubies and Sapphires are all actually the same gemstone. Sapphires can come in all sorts of colors (even multiples at once), it's just that when it's red we call it a Ruby.

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0dPDv TIL The US has “The Intracoastal Waterway” which is a 3,000-mile network of navigable rivers, bays, and canals along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. It provides a protected route for maritime traffic, avoiding the hazards of open ocean travel.
DmAv TIL that from 1936-1966, black Americans going on a road trip often used a “Negro Motorist Green Book” that would list businesses that sold to black people. The book helped travelers avoid one of 10,000 “sundown towns”, places it was the law that all non-whites had to leave the town by sundown.
O656 TIL the war hero Ewan McGregor portrayed in Black Hawk Down is a convicted child molester
rNVj4 TIL a boycott/shift from Apple phones and laptops would temporarily crash the entire U.S stock market
kOGJe TIL Anna Jarvis from West Virginia, USA organized the first Mother's Day in 1908 in honor of her mother , but subsequently opposed its commercialization