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TIL Claudette Colvin actually refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks, but she was 15 and pregnant so the NAACP didn’t want to publicize her.

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VBwR8 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 and for many centuries it was believed to be from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born. (Maybe Cancer)
BLQe TIL that Montpelier, VT is the only US state capital with no McDonald’s
LQXOm TIL that Rick James fled from America due to a Vietnam draft card he had received, and then settled in Canada where he met Neil Young and started his musical career.
ddLK TIL camels were originally adapted to the arctic, not the desert.
4XRbR TIL that if you eat a polar bear liver, you'll die. Humans can't handle that much vitamin A.