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TIL that Star Trek's William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols performed the first interracial kiss on TV. At the time polls showed that fewer than 20 percent of Americans agreed with interracial relationships.

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J1Pev Til that Tobey McGuire was briefly fired as Spider-Man for faking an injury. Jake Gyllenhaal was already in place.
8M5a TIL Michigan was the third jurisdiction in the world, after the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Liechtenstein, to abolish the death penalty. They did so shortly after entering the Union, in 1846.
l7nl7 TIL that there are 31.7 million small businesses in the US and 81% of them have no employees and are considered to be "nonemployers".
0wOj TIL - The Irish population in the United States is roughly six times the modern population of Ireland.
PYkOV TIL the first fireman death reported during the 9/11 attacks was directly caused by someone jumping off the building and landing on him(the fireman)