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TIL Stan Musial and his high school basketball teammates threatened to forfeit a basketball tournament because their hotel’s restaurant wouldn’t seat their two African-American teammates with the rest of the team. One of those players was Buddy Griffey, Ken’s father and Jr’s Grandpa

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9YrK6 TIL that people in the final stages of hypothermia end up trying to enter small, enclosed spaces. This is called terminal burrowing, and is believed by researchers to be an autonomous process, controlled by the brain stem.
wLo5P TIL: In the 1960's A Russian writer wrote a book about earthlings who travel to the moon, only to discover a "western style" capitalism society, and spend the remains of the book "liberating" the moon inhabitants from the jaws of capitalism via you guessed it, communism
XVgP TIL in 2009 the US mint offered free delivery on purchases of the new $1 coins, and many people exploited this to earn thousands of “free” airline miles buy using their credit cards to buy the coins, then using the coins to pay the credit card
xwXb TIL that the extra years on sentencing beyond death (e.g. “life without parole plus 1,000 years”) is both a symbolic way for a judge to condemn someone as truly guilty and console a victim, as well as a practical way to make it more difficult for someone to get out prison
ygQp TIL that the first US Army emergency chocolate ration was designed to taste “only a bit better than ‘a boiled potato’” to keep soldiers from eating their emergency rations in non-emergency situations