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TIL 2LT Jackie Robinson was court martialed for refusing to move to the back of the bus while serving in the Army in 1944, 11 years before Rosa Parks’ famous refusal

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LQ0ZZ TIL that mad Swiss novelist Robert Walser hand-wrote his later novels in “Microscripts”, such difficult microscopic pencil script that it took years after his death to decipher them. It didn't help that he spent the last 3 decades of his life in a mental institution, suffering from schizophrenia.
J1OJl TIL when fathers fight for custody, they are awarded partial or full custody 92% of the time.
YRMZ TIL the little boy who played Danny in The Shining, was so guarded by Stanley Kubrick during the filming process that he did not know it was a horror film until many years later. He has since abandoned acting and gone on to become a science teacher.
X5Zj TIL that the reason the Super Bowl has big-name performers is because in 1992 Fox counter programmed Super Bowl XXVI’s halftime. NFL brought Michael Jackson in for 1993 (XXVII) and have had huge artists ever since.
l77l5 TIL squeezing your animals can help them relax, works for cows!