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TIL of Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

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R5Mx8 TIL Jackie Robinson served in the first black tank unit to see action in WW2, but missed deployment due to his court-martial for refusing to move to the back of a bus.
lJ7a TIL that 2 nights before he broke the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager fell off a horse and broke his ribs. He didn’t tell anyone because he didn’t want to be taken off the mission. He had a local veterinarian tape him up.
nep7b TIL: Before the invention of toothbrushes, Europeans cleaned their teeth with rags rolled in salt or soot while Indians and Africans chewed on sticks from the Salvadora tree.
Wk0Do TIL A silk top hat is made from hatters' plush, and it is thought that there are no looms capable of producing the traditional material any more; the last looms in Lyon were destroyed by the last owner, Nicholas Smith, after a violent breakup with his brother, Bobby Smith.
5VVyr TIL of Wenceslao Moguel, a Mexican soldier fighting for Pancho Villa who was captured and sentenced to death without a trial in 1915. He was shot 9 times in the body and once in the head but managed to survive and live (disfigured) until 1976.