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TIL Blanche Kelso Bruce, who served as US senator from Mississippi, was an escaped fugitive slave

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0wZGM TIL in 1990 the grand marshal of the LA Gay Pride Parade was an 82 year old retired straight female professor. Her research in the 50s led to homosexuality no longer being considered a mental illness in the United States.
oR7AL TIL in the 80s a german ice hockey club was sponsored by Muammar Gaddafi and had his manifesto "The Green Book" on their shirt
0wkWR TIL of Kevin Carter. A member of the Bang-Bang Club, photographers who chronicled apartheid-­era South Africa. He took the “starving child and vulture” pic. He won the Pulitzer for the pic and soon after took his life, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger & pain.”
oB057 TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who in 1960 prevented nuclear war when NORAID misidentified the rising moon as 1000 Soviet Nuclear missiles, by asking where Khrushchev was
BVDk TIL in 2012, a petition was created urging the U.S. government to create a Death Star, which gained more than 25,000 signatures, enough to qualify for an official response.