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TIL some US schools still hold segregated proms

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5VLoQ TIL that "Disaster Girl" Zoe Roth, who was 4 in the meme photo, sold an NFT of the pic in 2021 for a little under a half million dollars. She used the $ to pay off student loans after earning a BA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Zp5Za TIL Newton tested the theory of gravitation involving the moon and Earth but found a discrepancy so large that he did not publish it. Six years later, a new measurement of the size of the Earth and distance of the moon came out and Newton recalculated again to show his theory worked
9YNX7 TIL: Classical pianist, Eliane Rodrigues, played a broken piano to entertain the audience as they replaced the piano
15KD TIL Almost 700 Hours of recorded interviews of former Black slaves are publicly online available at the Library of Congress. They sing songs and discuss their feelings on slavery, freedom, their families and slavemasters.
Lk9NP TIL Mexico was the only country to protest the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. To honor that support, there is a square in Vienna named "Mexikoplatz".