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TIL it is illegal for US citizens and corporations to boycott Israel.

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AZRo TIL Medal of Honor recipient Roy Benavidez was shot 7 times, had 28 shrapnel holes in him, was clubbed by a rifle, slashed by a bayonet twice before he left the battlefield. When mistakenly identified as dead, he spit blood in the medic’s face
epy7n TIL the first African American woman to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel in 1939, wasn't even able to attend the premiere of the movie she preformed in due to it being held at a whites-only theater.
JbLm TIL In 1996, Rob Schneider established the Rob Schneider Music Foundation. The foundation returned music education to Pacifica’s elementary schools by paying the teachers’ salaries and providing funds for instruments and equipment. Prior to this the schools did not have music education for years
4k6DN TIL President Gerald Ford once tried to eat a tamale without taking off the corn husk while campaigning
N7Ol8 TIL that a zookeeper secretly grew a cannabis plantation inside the rhino enclosure at an Austrian zoo for years. He was the only one who had access to the enclosure and police made the discovery after a tip from a drug user.