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TIL Alexander Clark sued and achieved the first successful school desegregation case in Iowa in 1868, 86 years before Brown v. Board of Education.

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Oo0p6 TIL that Dan Aykroyd got into the "We are the World" video because he walked into the wrong place.
Oonbg TIL the Netherlands and the british Isles of Scilly were technically at war with each other for 335 years with neither side realizing it. When peace was signed in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing to the Scillonians "to know we could have attacked at any moment."
5YQ9B TIL of the "Green Book" which was a travel guide for black people published up until 1966 that gave locations on safe stops and routes for travel in the U.S.
8aWvG TIL in 1984 NASA crashed a fully fueled Boeing passenger jet, with crash dummies as passengers and pilots into the Mojave desert. The crash was filmed from multiple angles at high speed in 16MM film. The knowledge gained from this test lead to major changes in airline flight safety standards.
EML0 TIL that “God Bless the U.S.A. (Proud to be an American)” singer, Lee Greenwood once refused to play and walked out on a concert honoring Veterans, and other servicemen, because the final $2000 agreed upon in his contract wasn’t paid by cashiers check.