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TIL in 1996 NBA star Mahmud Abdul Rauf refused to stand for the national anthem. His career ended as a result.

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pP5Q TIL that Henry Kissinger said, “Military Men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in Foreign Policy” and has not denied this quote to this day.
GYoAN TIL Shuttlecocks used in professional badminton are made of feathers from the left wing of a goose. Feathers from the right wing make them spin the wrong way.
ne98P TIL black people are less likely to know how to swim due, in part, to historic bans on black people swimming in public pools. In 1964, a motel manager poured acid in the pool to scare away black swimmers who were staging a "swim in."
rXo1 TIL that TEL (tetraethyl lead), an octane booster gasoline additive that was killing Standard Oil Refinery workers or rendering them mad in the 1920’s, wasn’t’ banned by the United States until 1986 largely due to business interests.
neDkr TIL that Ebola was actually discovered by a "Congolese" doctor Jean-Jacques Muyembe and not a doctor in "Belgium" named Peter Piot.