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TIL when former Bucks player John Henson visited a Milwaukee jewelry store in 2015 trying to buy a watch, the employees refused him service, locked the store and called the police on him, from which he was subjected to questioning

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QJalX TIL Michael Jackson did not create the Moonwalk move but learned it from a dancer called Geoffrey, who had called it the Backslide. Michael Jackson renamed the move after he learned it from Geoffrey and it instantly became an iconic dance move.
k4Og TIL that famous Mormon Brigham Young once said “If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of [Africans], the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.”
04Ry TIL that in New Zealand, names for children must be approved by the government before being legally registered. Despite this, names such as “Number 16 Bus Shelter”, “Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii” and “Violence” have been approved while “Yeah Detroit” and “Sex Fruit” have been rejected.
WkE64 TIL that the Nirvana drummer / Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl once filled in for a sick drummer of the band Cage The Elephant. He had one day to learn the songs after only hearing them a few times and played them perfectly.
woo4E TIL that chimpanzees are NOT 5 times stronger than humans. A chimpanzee's muscular performance can in fact only produce around 1.35-1.5 times the performance that human muscle can produce. This means that a large and athletic person will be as strong as a chimpanzee.