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TIL about The Freedom Riders. Buses filled with black and white would travel to the south to test the law that banned segregation on interstate travel. They were attacked and firebombed then assaulted numerous times.

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VMZdZ TIL that North Korea has its own football league. It was founded in 1960 and is apart of the Asian Football Confederation. Due to North Korea's secrecy not too much detail is known about the league.
p6oe TIL Penn & Teller rarely socialize when not working together, and don’t consider each other to be close friends. Penn believes that them not being close friends is why the duo has lasted and been successful for so long.
PYa6O TIL Doom in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was going to be the hunter who killed Bambi's mother but Disney objected
PYJNn TIL Namarrkon is an important creation ancestor (in Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) N. Territory, Australia) who is responsible for the violent lightning storms that occur every tropical summer -- And he looks like an alien.
WkYD9 TIL that in the 70’s, missionary Daniel Everett came to a brazilian indigenous tribe to try to convert them. Instead, they “deconverted” him to atheism.