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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.

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XgDr TIL in the film ‘Bruce Almighty’ God’s phone number is 776-2323, which is unassigned in Buffalo. The number is real in other area codes though, and these people were inundated with callers asking for “God”. One of the numbers belonged to a church.
R7J99 TIL The writer of "That 70's Show" theme song gets $70 each time the show airs, and refers to it as "That $70 Show" .
KO0g4 TIL one of the reasons why the girls that took the Cottingley Fairies photos did not originally state they were fake was because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed them to be real, and they did not wish to embarrass him. To the day they died, both girls insisted they had really seen fairies.
8eawL TIL that before respirators were invented, firefighters were required to grow a full beard. Before a fire, firefighters would soak their beards in water and clamped it in their teeth to act as filters, which would block the larger ashes.
9YLNr TIL Pete Maravich said “I don’t want to play 10 years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at age 40.” and then played in the NBA for exactly 10 years and later died at age 40.