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TIL that U.S. public libraries were some of the first institutions to be racially integrated because whites generally didn’t want to put up much of a fight about them. Some were even ashamed at the time to learn that libraries were segregated.

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pdEO TIL: In September 1940, four boys and a dog set out on an adventure in Dordogne, France.When the boys decided to explore the hole, they slid into a deep underground chamber where they discovered the most famous cave paintings in the world- the Lascaux Cave Paintings.
kVL5 TIL “3 Ninjas” was the most profitable film of 1992 because of its small budget.
AD08l TIL that Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who came up with the term “The pen is mightier than the sword”, is also renowned for popularizing the “It was a dark and stormy night” opening line
7VPX TIL that after The Lion King came out, a Hyena biologist sued Disney for defamation of character, on behalf of the Hyenas
Lkxvm TIL a 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.