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TIL: The only member of ZZ Top without a beard had the last name "Beard"

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e0O1k TIL in 1925 an all African-American baseball team, the Wichita Monrovians, played against a team sponsored by and made up of Ku Klux Klan members. The Monrovians won 10-8.
8awoZ TIL that Roman gladiator fights were officiated by referees, and that one gladiator who died in combat even blamed the referee for his death on his tombstone, with the epitaph "Fate and the cunning treachery of [the referee] killed me."
OoYEL TIL Orcas, and other marine mammals, are given a plethora of drugs to deal with their captivity. These drugs include antacids (to treat ulcers from stress), antibiotics (for injuries and infections), antipsychotics, benzodiazepines (valium, again for stress), and contraceptives.
wd9E TIL porcupines have natural antibiotics in their skin, and are the only mammals native to North America to have such protection.
lok4A TIL in 555, Chinese Emperor Wenxuan decided that Buddhism and Taoism should be merged into one religion. He had Buddhist and Taoist monks debate and declared the Buddhists victorious, ordering Taoism merged into Buddhism. Some Taoist monks refused, but after he executed 4 monks, the others submitted