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TIL that Red lipstick didn't always mean glamour

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vPxPB TIL that after qualifying for the 5000m Olympic trials in 1928, black athlete Dolphus Stroud had to make his way to Boston on his own. He walked, ran, and hitch-hiked over 12 days, arriving 6 hours before his race. He collapsed due to exhaustion and malnutrition in the 6th lap
NXvXP TIL about the Argument from incomplete devastation. The argument is a form of argument from observed miracles. Plane crashes, 200 died, 1 survived, there is a God.
9w4Bm TIL Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker invaded the stage at the 1996 Brit Awards to protest Michael Jackson's performance, in which he sang surrounded by children and a rabbi
QNMKe TIL Boeing B17 pilots often accidentally raised the undercarriage after landing, destroying the propellors and damaging the underbelly, due to the undercarriage lever and the flap lever looking the same.
xV5Nb TIL Air Traffic Controllers have jobs so stressful they're required to retire at 56