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TIL that Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section of the bus during the infamous incident in Montgomery; she was asked to vacate her seat, in the front row of the colored section, because the white portion of the bus was filled.

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XNxr TIL that in 1941, the RAF dropped packages containing tea bags over the German occupied Netherlands. The packages were marked, “Holland will rise again… Keep your chins up.”
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