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TIL Tim Howard once scored a goal as a goalkeeper

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4kKAX TIL a man walked 1,300-miles for publicity to win an election and he succeeded
6EWM7 TIL in addition to the protests & death threats Ruby Bridges had to face as the first black kid in a white school, her father lost his job, the local grocery store stopped serving the family, & her sharecropper grandparents were turned off their land.
VBEOQ TIL that Bill Griffith's comics character, Zippy the Pinhead, was partially inspired by William Henry Johnson. Johnson was born with an unusual tapering cranium, which led some people to believe he was a microcephalic. When Johnson worked for P.T. Barnum, he performed as Zip the Pinhead.
Ypkvv TIL a man sent free tennis balls to people all over the world if they promised to use them to play with their dogs
17KP TIL there’s about 10 times the amount of water inside the earth, as there is in all the oceans, lakes, rivers, and glaciers on the surface.