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TIL Americans with Disabilities Fought for Their Civil Rights by Crawling Up the Steps of the Capitol Building

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VMOXQ TIL that the Beatle’s song Blackbird is about a black woman during the civil rights era.
mxkEE TIL of UK student Jacob Ford, who protested his school's ban on bags by bringing his books to class inside of a microwave oven. His mother supported his peaceful protest, but the school suspended him & chastised the mother for supporting him.
XGkP TIL General Motors once hired prostitutes to attempt to seduce Ralph Nader in order to discredit him in his campaign to force the automobile industry to include seatbelts in its cars.
LQy90 TIL: Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the injured girl who was in the equally infamous and iconic "Napalm girl" image, survived her third-degree burns and became a UNESCO humanitarian, even eventually meeting with the pilot who dropped the napalm and forgave him.
NOdM TIL: 60% of men in India have penises too small for international standard condoms