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TIL that South Africa used to issue permits for Boer farmers to hunt the San people (bushmen), the last permit was issued in 1936

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b9yRZ TIL: about “emergency backup goalies” (EBUGs) in the NHL. If a team’s primary and backup goalie are both injured during a game, anyone in the arena can be called on to suit up and play goal. The home team is always expected to have an amateur goalie in the arena.
wJwE TIL a US Navy POW blinked the word ‘torture’ in morse code during a forced TV interview in North Vietnam to signal his conditions to the Office of Naval Intelligence
nWmxd TIL Martin Luther King Jr. And Richard Nixon were both offered roles in Advise & Consent (1962). King made a press release saying he would not be in the film. Nixon turned down the offer over technical errors in the script.
l7691 TiL that Noel Gallagher wrote Oasis's first hit single ("Supersonic") in half an hour during a break in a recording session while the rest of the band got Chinese takeout.
rRbje TIL the album "The Mollusk" by the 90s Indie band Ween was one of the primary inspirations for Spongebob.