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nWbG TIL that cheerleading is, by an enormous margin, the most dangerous organized sport in high school and college
oB84r TIL that France’s army was taken over by a communist militia for just two months in 1871
b981Z TIL Josephine Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the US and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
jX9n TIL that wearing a Peyton Manning #18 jersey to school in Denver gets you sent home, because the numbers 13, 14, 18, 31, 41, and 81 are banned in the district due to their association with local gangs.
e17L TIL that in 1912 scientist Alfred Wegener first published his theory of continental drift and was ridiculed. He died 1930 when exploring in Greenland; his body was buried there. Over the years his body sailed west at a rate of about 2cm/year carried on the back of the North American tectonic plate.