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TIL that Alabama Pitts, who was serving time for robbery, went from playing in an experimental prison sports program to becoming a professional basketball, baseball, and football player, even playing for the Philadelphia Eagles.

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5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.
eglL TIL many prominent historians have good proof that before the industrial revolution, most people slept in two periods per day, rather than one continuous period of nightly sleep
wLJeo TIL that musical artist Prince's birth name was actually Prince
nWdmP TIL that sustaining the filibuster in US political history has, at various times, involved: preparing a pee bucket, reading the phone book, reciting recipes, and in one most remarkable case, restraining Robert La Follette from hurling a brass spittoon at Joseph Robinson in 1917.
0wgLA TIL that Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity and he did not attend his prize giving, Despite being informed that he was about to receive the prize, he chose to continue with a lecture tour of Japan, because he simply no longer valued it.