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TIL A language teacher volunteered to teach troubled black high school students French in Watts, California after the race riots. The principal warned him he would “be sorry” but within a few weeks students were speaking to each other in French

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78Zxx TIL about the Somaliland campaign, a series of military expeditions in northern Somalia by the British Empire against the Dervish movement from 1900 to 1920. It ended when the British aerially bombed the Dervish capital. 100K to 150K Somali civilians were ultimately killed in the campaign.
M7xLa TIL that Spain cheated in the Paralympics, sending multiple players without disabilities to the games
AD4Pl TIL Betty White had a cameo in Toy Story 4 as a teething toy named “Bitey White”
AE1n TIL Charlie Chaplin was banned from reentering the United States in 1952, primarily due to speculation that he was a communist
L58r TIL that Asia Carrera, star of over 250 porn films, won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa, with an IQ of 156