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TIL that the United States Appeals court ruled that competitive cheerleading is not a sport

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Jad8 TIL an American/Canadian Space Gun, Which Shot a Projectile 112 Miles High, Sits Rusting in a Barbados Jungle
BgpVb TIL After the massive success of their original 1969 cartoon, “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. went down a rabbit hole and spent the next decade or so ripping off their own ‘Scooby formula’ to produce a TON of hysterically weird Scooby-doo clones.
X0jD TIL that during his reign, Pope John Paul II apologized for the conquest of Mesoamerica, the complicity in the African slave trade, the silence of Catholics during the Holocaust, and the trial of Galileo.
8abJb TIL Following the buyout of K.F.C in 1971, Colonel Sanders disliked their food so much that he developed plans to franchise “The Colonel’s Lady’s Dinner House” restaurant (which he opened with his wife in Kentucky, in 1968) as a competitor. Followed by Sanders suing the new owners for $122 million.
8a48K TIL NASA tried to get Big Bird to go on a space shuttle mission to inspire kids, and he would have died if he did (in the Challenger space shuttle disaster).