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TIL that in 1958 after six-year-old white girl Sissy Marcus playfully kissed seven-year-old black boy David Simpson as nine-year-old James Thomson -also black- stood by, both boys were arrested for “molestation” and sentenced to reform school until they reached the age of twenty-one.

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4kpwR TIL about gamification in loyalty programs, which involves incorporating game-like elements such as badges, levels, and challenges to make the program more engaging and motivating for customers.
RRjj TIL “…Charlie Brown is not bald. Though Charlie Brown is drawn with only a small curl of hair at the front of his head, and a little in the back, Charles M. Schulz has explained that he saw Charlie Brown as having hair that was light and cut short, so that it could not be seen very easily.”
X0LLP TIL there is a completely isolated part of India called North Sentinel Island. It is home to a tribe of people that will kill you if you attempt to visit the island.
r8A1 TIL that Chekov did not appear on ‘Star Trek’ until the first episode of the second season. The character was created to attract young viewers by resembling Davy Jones of The Monkees.
pYP64 TIL of Patrice Lumumba- arguably the Godfather of Africa's reclaiming of independence. He led Congo to independence in 1960 (from a colony of Belgium). He was a charismatic leader who embodied the struggle for African unity, and the complete eradication of European colonialist power in Africa.