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TIL that’s Kangaroo testicles were stuffed with grass and used as a football by indigenous Australians and the game bore quite the resemblance to Aussie Rules Football.

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P1QXV TIL 19th century African-American baseball player Ulysses Franklin "Frank" Grant is credited with inventing shin guards after hostile white players slid spikes-first into black players.
ADEEB TIL that one of the 2 co-owners/founders of Macy's died on the Titanic, along with his wife, because he refused to board rescue ships before women and children were helped. His wife chose to stay behind because she did not want to abandon her husband, so they both died together aboard the Titanic.
4X4bo TIL that The Clash, even at the height of their fame, had an open-door policy where anyone who wanted to could come backstage
JYeL4 TIL that a week before the Rosa Parks incident, segregation on interstate buses was struck down after a black Woman Army Corps Private refused to give up her seat to a white Marine.
wQe7 TIL Prince used a picture of Dave Chappelle dressed as Prince for a 2013 album cover