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XkyE TIL in 1965, 25% of all black households in the US were headed by women. By 2010, that figure reached 72%.
OgaL TIL that 90% of polled Native Americans have no problem with the “Redskins” sports team nickname.
7rZDL TIL basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal owns 155 Five Guys franchises, nearly 10% of all the Five Guys in existence.
M8KB TIL Michael Jackson wrote over 40 tracks for Sonic The Hedgehog 3. Although he requested not to be credited(due to dissatisfaction with the sound quality), his compositions made it into the final game.
4kpla TIL British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years' imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code.