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TIL that in 1953, a member of the Indiana Textbook Commission tried to ban mentions of Robin Hood because he promoted communism

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JYbjB TIL That Queen Victoria used to take cocaine and once took the drug with Winston Churchill when he was young.
5Y90P TIL that J. M. Barrie based the character of Peter Pan on his brother David. The reason Peter always stays the same age is because David drowned the day before his fourteenth birthday, and his family always remembered him as the boy who never grew up.
j6ZZR TIL at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the New York City Ballet was on tour in the USSR and the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in the USA
EEko TIL that at 10 years old Mike Tyson bought $700 worth of birds after robbing someone’s home. He later got into his first fight after someone stole and decapitated one of them.
EWOp TIL Congress tried to pass a “American Hippo bill” in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamus into Louisiana to help solve the American meat crisis, described as “lake cow bacon”