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TIL in the 1930s, African Americans weren’t allowed to compete in sanctioned bowling tournaments, so they formed their own all-black bowling league. They called it the NBA.

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jNxpR TIL Napoleon was the greatest general in human history, according to a detailed quantitative analysis in 2017 that was inspired by baseball sabermetrics.
PY6YO TIL that after the filming of "2001 a Space Odyssey", director Stanley Kubrick destroyed nearly all of the film's props so that they wouldn't be used for "lesser" science-fiction films in the future.
ADJW7 TIL that the entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.
8aGwK TIL the phrase "Kill 'em all, Let God Sort them Out" dates back to August 1209, and was uttered during the Albigensian Crusade when over 7000 people, both Catholics and "heretics", were murdered in Beziers, France.
7rd1x TIL Marius was a famous Roman general, but during a civil war he refused to leave his fortification. An enemy general said, "So if you are such a great general, Marius, why not come down and fight it out?" Marius replied, "Well, if you think you are any good a general, why don't you try to make me?"