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TIL Susan G. Komen Foundation sues and forces smaller charities to shut down over the word ‘Cure" and the colour pink.

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9YXer TIL that, from 1933 to 1945, more than two-thirds of the faculty hired at many Historically Black Colleges and Universities were Jewish refugees who had come to the United States to escape from Nazi Germany.
9w8BM TIL medieval European scholars believed the Southern Hemisphere couldn't be habitable because they thought the Equator was too hot to cross, making places south of it unreachable by evangelists, and since Jesus told the apostles to "evangelize all mankind", unreachable people couldn't exist.
BrAGW TIL Disney abandoned plans for a park in Virginia. Opposition groups complained it would cause suburban sprawl, create "fast food strips" and invite malls. Today the area is a suburb of million-dollar golf course homes, a mall, and a strips of fast food stores.
Brwjk TIL The original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers series helped to inspire George Lucas's Star War series to include an "opening crawl," a signature device used in the opening sequence of every numbered film. Star Wars used the famous opening crawl, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."
Oo0X TIL Catholic Priests molesting children was such a problem in the 20th Century, in 1962 the church issued an instruction called “Crimen Sollicitationis”, reiterating another instruction issued in 1922, threatening excommunication for any clergy or victim that made a case public