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TIL The KKK tried to to set up a kerosene-soaked cross at Spring Hill College due to its supporting the civil rights movement. When the students were alerted they chased the Klansmen away with whatever items they could use as weapons like golf clubs, tennis rackets, bricks, and softball bats.

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pL5Q TIL Terrell Owens is the only NFL player to score a touchdown against all 32 NFL teams. (actually has at least 2 for each team)
DAyv TIL Michael the gorilla was taught sign language by Koko, the first signing gorilla. He began signing “Squash meat gorilla. Mouth tooth. Cry sharp-noise loud. Bad think-trouble look-face. Cut/neck lip (girl) hole.” Researchers believed this was a description of the poaching death of his mother.
7ld7 TIL the reason Old World disease killed so many natives in the New World upon colonization was because of the disease’s roots in domesticated animals; while Europeans had centuries of exposure to countless livestock pathogens, natives kept virtually no livestock, so were defenseless against them.
oRoM8 TIL that 5th Element director Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich started a relationship after Maiwenn (who played the Diva) and he broke up. Luc and Milla by the end of the film would have casual conversations in the "Divine Language" that Luc had made up, and that Milla added to
8a4mK TIL that one of the most popular characters in the Attack On Titan anime, Levi, was not in the live action remake because the name was too difficult to write in Japanese