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TIL in 1925 an all African-American baseball team, the Wichita Monrovians, played against a team sponsored by and made up of Ku Klux Klan members. The Monrovians won 10-8.

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8OkZ TIL the word ‘Retarded’ was once championed to more accurately describe the (now dubbed) intellectually disabled , and replace its then synonyms, which had all become colloquialisms for being stupid; but today it’s considered offensive after having fallen prey to the same fate.
G61g TIL That major brain damage from alcohol can be prevented by proper nutrition and is not directly caused by alcohol itself.
jNRja TIL in Iceland, if you don’t know the address to where you want your mail to go, you can hand-draw a map to your destination on the envelope
QK7k TIL that until 2011, anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia was just considered foodstuff.
ZKkR TIL David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, fought so hard to prevent FM Radio from succeeding that the inventor of FM Radio, Edwin Howard Armstrong, commit suicide because of emotional and financial distress…brought on by RCA lawsuits.