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TIL Dick Van Dyke got his first TV job as a game show host for the original The Price Is Right in 1956

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Orva TIL that Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old African American girl, was the unsung hero of the Alabama Bus Boycott and desegregation of public transportation. Before Rosa Parks, Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman, citing that it was her constitutional right.
e08KE TIL about “Vulture Bees,” 3 species of necrophagous Central American stingless bees which use meat as a protein source.
jNMRM TIL that John F. Kennedy, 2 months before his presidency, was almost assassinated by someone driving a dynamite-lading car into his. This was prevented because the assassin saw his wife and kids bid goodbye to Kennedy, thus changing his mind.
bVR0 TIL that there were no reports of violent crime in all of New York City on November 26, 2012. This is the first time this was known to have happened.
d8E9K TIL: Mayo Buckner spent 59 years in a mental institute before doctors admitted he was actually sane, and always had been.