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TIL McDonald’s first menu items were hot dogs, not hamburgers.

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JYB4l TIL Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and faced a five-year prison term, at the height of the Vietnam War for refusing to fight. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong, they never called me n****r."
R5MGQ TIL that satellites in geosynchronous orbit generally retain a spacing of at least 73 km's from one another.
7r8er TIL That The US Capitol Building does not have metal utensils in fear that they will be taken and not returned.
OX5R TIL that one of the first things free blacks could grow, eat, and sell were watermelons. It became a symbol of freedom that was corrupted into a negative stereotype by southern whites and still persists today.
GYgmJ TIL that Marjory Stoneman Douglas fought against efforts to drain the FL Everglades and reclaim land for development when she was 79 years old. Her tireless efforts earned her several variations of the nickname "Grande Dame of the Everglades.” She also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.