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TIL that in 1987, Ruud Gullit won the Ballon d'Or and dedicated the trophy to Nelson Mandela, who was in jail at the time. When people criticized him for taking a political stance, he explained that to him, it wasn't about politics, but simply a human decision

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e06OD TIL that when Queen performed for the first time in Australia, at the Sunbury Pop Festival in 1974, they were continuously booed by the crowd, they went on to finish their set with Freddie Mercury yelling to the crowd "When we come back to Australia, Queen will be the biggest band in the world!"
l709K TIL The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad as a tourist attraction in Dillsboro, North Carolina.
xyo1 TIL the 27th amendment to the Constitution, which restricts the ability of Congress to raise its own pay, was ratified in 1992, more than 200 years after the first state approved it in 1789.
yQknl TIL after Hurricane Katrina, 4,500 public school teachers were fired in New Orleans, teacher unions were outlawed, and almost all schools were privatized. The firings were ruled illegal but no one got their jobs back.
1kO4 TIL Jiminy Cricket was initially drawn as a realistic cricket, but Disney wanted something more likable, so the supervising animator came up with what he described as a “little man with an egg head and no ears”, saying “the only thing that makes him a cricket is because we call him one.”