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TIL Nichelle Nichols was convinced to stay on “Star Trek” by Martin Luther King Jr., who told her, “don’t you understand for the first time, we’re seen as we should be seen. You don’t have a black role. You have an equal role.”

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klO7 TIL that there is a dwarf planet in our solar system that is 8 billion miles away and takes 10,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.
9YVvX TIL about Jack Trice. He was the second black college football player. Before his first game, he wrote about how proud he was to have the opportunity. He was intentionally targeted throughout the game, breaking his collarbone and causing internal bleeding, which in turn caused his death.
PWJE TIL even knowing the sequence of blocks beforehand, there is no easy way to maximize your score in Tetris.
ONme TIL that Catherine Kerkow hijacked an airplane from Los Angeles to Algeria in 1972. Last seen in France in 1975, she has yet to be caught.
vGa8 TIL the vultures in Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ were originally meant to be voiced by The Beatles until John Lennon insisted they weren’t “going to sing for Mickey f—ing Mouse”. Still, Disney kept a lot of likeness to the band in the characters.