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TIL that a group of Owls is called a parliament.

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rRw44 TIL Blockbusting is a technique whereby realtors would buy a home on an all-white street, sell or rent it to a black family, and then buy up the remaining homes from whites at cut-rate prices, then sell them to black families at hefty profits. This is later made illegal by the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
4k1DN TIL the "good fences make good neighbors" poem by Robert Frost (called Mending Wall) actually argues against fences, says they're unnatural and don't create good neighbors
J1P1B TIL about Tightwad Bank in Tightwad, MO. Opened in 1984 closed in 2006. Reopened in 2008 and as of 2018 closed. Currently being used as storage w/ plans to be used as an Antique Mall.
mR0Y TIL the highest casualty rate ever suffered by the US Army (97.6%) came at the hands of indigenous forces at the Battle of the Wabash. The battle wiped out one-quarter of the entire US Army and led to the first-ever congressional investigation of the executive branch.
7DQ7 TIL that in the USA, the deadliest job is logging, followed by fishing. Taxi drivers are the most likely to be murdered, more than twice as likely than cops.