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TIL that Mack Robinson, brother of Jackie Robinson, medaled in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Upon returning home to California, the only work he could find as an African American was sweeping streets, which he did while wearing his Olympic ‘USA’ sweatshirt.

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P1yxe TIL In WWE the first wrestler The Undertaker put in a body bag was a man called Buck Zumhofe, Zumhofe was also the wrestler Triple H made his TV debut against. In 2014 Buck Zumhofe was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing his own daughter
8aRJP TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat
grWpW TIL The opening sequence in Raiders Of The Lost Ark was inspired by a Scrooge McDuck comic
9wXB6 TIL that Teenie Beanies are miniature Beanie Babies that were offered as McDonald's Happy Meal promotions from 1997 to 2000. At the peak of its popularity in 1998, Tennie Beanies caused many fights at McDonald's locations, resulting in police calls, criminal charges, and injuries.
QJQjX TIL Sergei Preminin was a Russian sailor who sacrificed his life to prevent a reactor meltdown aboard the Soviet submarine K-219. The submarine was off the coast of Bermuda and a reactor meltdown would have spread radiation across the entire North American Atlantic coast.