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TIL in 1970 Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi for having a racially integrated cast

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LQMQ TIL that 2 dogs were executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials
ZXnG TIL Stephen Hawking pulled out of conference in Israel hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians
D1r8g TIL a frozen zoo is a storage facility in which genetic materials taken from animals are stored at very low temperatures. Material preserved in this way can be stored indefinitely and used for artificial insemination, in vitro fertilisation, embryo transfer, and cloning.
0dWKj TIL that before water fountains were used for people to drink water freely in public, people used to drink from something called the "common cup", a publicly shared and very unhygienic cup or ladle-type spoon attached by string.
GY0N5 TIL Jesse Owens set 5 world records in 45 minutes at the Olympics