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TIL Roscoe Orman who played Gordon on Sesame Street 1974-2016 also played the pimp Willie in the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite

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kOgZB Til about chana, a family of 180 members(and counting) which holds the record as the 'world's largest existing family'. Its head ziona has 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.
GYyb5 TIL of the ancient Turkish sport, kyz kuu (girl chasing). A man and woman on horseback chase each other to the finish line. If the man wins, he steals a kiss. If she wins, she whips the man.
E168P TIL that Keanu Reeves trained for four months in karate for The Matrix. Later, he learned over 200 martial arts moves for Matrix Reloaded and also learned Judo and Jujitso for John Wick.
aMrb TIL that in 1958 after six-year-old white girl Sissy Marcus playfully kissed seven-year-old black boy David Simpson as nine-year-old James Thomson -also black- stood by, both boys were arrested for “molestation” and sentenced to reform school until they reached the age of twenty-one.
R58Pa TIL of Jennifer Keelan, an 8 year old girl with cerebral palsy who crawled up the steps of the Capitol building to tell Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act that had been stalled in committee. It was signed into law 4 months later.