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TIL: In 1970 Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi because of its racially integrated cast

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l78yN TIL That Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the first Americans to be tired and executed for stealing nuclear documents from the US Government during peacetime.
064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.
XmDE TIL there is a hidden bar in NYC that is only accessible through a phone booth
6Q8Q TIL on a banned episode of Sesame Street Oscar the Grouch fell in love with the Wicked Witch of the West
pY17Z TIL Benedict IX is the only person to have been pope more than once.He served as pope for 12 years, was forced out of Rome, returned, sold the papacy to his godfather to marry his cousin, changed his mind, was deposed by Emperor Henry III, seized the Papal Palace, and was driven out for good in 1048