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TIL: Fels-Naptha soap no longer contains naptha

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5V41k TIL Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara to Indian parents in the Parsi community and spent his formative years in India. He never discussed his ethnicity w/ journalists; the closest he came was referring to himself as “a Persian popinjay”.
4V4g TIL that a high school girl’s basketball team beat a school for girl’s with learning disabilities 100-0 and then sacked their coach for the “shameful and embarrassing” win.
jGMn TIL that a gypsy boxer in Nazi Germany was threatened by the Nazis to throw his next match. He came into that match with his hair dyed blonde and with whiteface. He took blows for five rounds like he was asked before collapsing. The boxers name was Johann Trollmann
Bra1e TIL of Qian Xuesen, a Chinese aerospace engineer who was a founding member of JPL. When he was stripped of his security clearances during the Red Scare despite protests by his colleagues, he moved back to China where he became well known as the "Father of Chinese Rocketry"
5Vwv9 TIL that How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years