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TIL that armadillo shells can deflect bullets

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N7OG8 TIL Congressman/Civil Rights Hero John Lewis appeared on “Arthur” on PBS. Rest in Power
OlQa TIL J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
x6bDb TIL that some orcas prey on dolphins
xVEj0 TIL that when the US military tried segregating the pubs in Bamber Bridge in 1943, the local Englishmen instead decided to hang up "Black soldiers only" signs on all pubs as protest
JY8mv TIL The Beatles were a strong influence in American civil rights, refusing to play for segregated audiences and even put it in their contract. They refused to play at the Gator Bowl in FL in 1964 until the desegregated the audience.