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TIL that after becoming the first Black woman to argue at the U.S. Supreme Court, and winning 9 of 10 landmark civil rights cases, Constance Baker Motley became a U.S. Judicial Court judge and handed down a decision giving women sports reporters equal access to Major League Baseball locker rooms.

R7BBa TIL 75% of the world lives off of 12 crops and 5 animals. The crops are; sugar cane, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, cassava, tomatoes, bananas, onions, apples, and grapes. The animals are; Cattle, Chicken, Pig, Goat, and Sheep.
v1QNR TIL March 26, 2020, had the lowest movie theater ticket sales in history, at a total of $24 (as opposed to 2019, with $17,294,351 in sales)
78A5O TIL Steven Hawking cheated on his first wife with his nurse Elaine Mason. Elaine was also married to the man who helped create Steven Hawking's speech synthesizer. Then Steven Hawking married her.
e05JD TIL that George Lucas wanted the final trilogy to take place in a microbiotic world. It would be shown that creatures called Whills are actually what use the Force and that Jedi only communicate with Whills via their midi-chlorians. His vision for Star Wars was to teach appreciation for ecosystems.
9wW0G TIL On March 16, 1968 Hugh Thompson, a US Army helicopter pilot, played a pivotal role in ending the My Lia Massacre in a southern Vietnam village. Thompson threatened to open fire on American troops if they continued to harm innocent civilians. His extraordinary actions prevented further tragedy.