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TIL that the Black Panther Party created the Free Breakfast for School Children Program in which they gave free breakfasts to over 10,000 kids so that they’d have the energy to learn in school

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BByK TIL 26.5 million Canadians tuned into the gold medal final in men’s hockey during the 2010 Winter Olympics. That’s 80% of the entire country’s population.
XAoD TIL there is a Superhero whose sole power is being able to remove his limbs to bludgeon people
Oo76e TIL of Gunner, a stray Australian dog who, after being wounded in a WW2 air raid, could distinguish so accurately between the sounds of Allied and Japanese planes that he could give 20 mins warning before an air attack. He was taken in by the RAAF and given a role detecting air attacks on Darwin.
V0WD TIL that in an effort to reduce childhood obesity, Belgium substituted beer for soft drinks in school lunches
rOr1 TIL that 35% of America’s high school graduates are functionally illiterate.