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1aEd TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”
b6Ebj TIL Biggest NBA brawl in history left players with $11.2 million fine and caused numerous game suspensions
loBR7 TIL one of the symptoms of hookworm disease is a desire to eat soil.
R7pp7 TIL that in the 1880s and 1890s, 'dude’ was another word for ‘dandy’. In 1888 New York socialite and Chow dog enthusiast Evander Berry Wall (1861-1940), dubbed King of the Dudes, won a 'Battle of the Dudes' twice. He owned 5000 neckties and once changed clothes 40 times between breakfast and dinner.
b7M9 TIL Albert Einstein died after refusing surgery, saying:“I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”