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TIL that the US is a more unequal society than ancient Rome.

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515B TIL that according to one researcher, ancients such as Alexander the Great were sometimes buried in honey. After about a hundred years, candied corpses were supposedly dug up and eaten as medicine.
d1Rr TIL Louisiana’s coastline is disappearing at the rate of a football field AN HOUR
B8pd TIL an American journalist and author darkened his skin journeyed the south to experience segregation first-hand.
kOQj7 TIL that Judge Ito ( of OJ simpson trial fame) was married to the former superior officer of Mark Fuhrman (of OJ Simpson trial fame)
yQbN8 TIL on August 4, 1922, phone service across the United States and Canada was suspended for one minute to honor Alexander Graham Bell's funeral with a moment of silence.