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TIL that football player Mardy Gilyard was kicked out of the University of Cincinnati and owed the school $10,000. he then worked 4 jobs simultaneously and slept in his car just to get back into school, eventually becoming the leading wide receiver in UC history

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9wVMQ TIL over 80,000 Moroccan men, mostly from the Rif region, fought as soldiers for Francisco Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. They would be instrumental in the rise of a fascist Spain.
PbWn TIL that in 1942, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT introduced a bill in which raised the marginal tax rate for salaries exceeding $25,000 (after tax) to 100%, thereby limiting salaries to $25,000 (about $361,000 today). CREATING A MAXIMUM WAGE.
xL17 TIL most languages name the game of Chess after their word for “check”
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R6B6 TIL that in 1978 France rolled out a pre-World Wide Web online service that gave its users access to online shopping, search engines, cybersex and message boards. It reached 25 million users in the 90s, connecting to more than 23,000 services.