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TIL the origin of the phrase “government cheese”

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epNG5 TIL about the All-American Basketball Alliance, a white-only basketball league proposed in 2010 by boxing promoter Don Lewis. After being decried by mayors and colleges in the cities where teams were proposed, as well as by national media figures, the idea was abandoned.
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xVDjB TIL that Jackie Robinson was a baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the B. Dodgers. In 1997, MLB retired his uniform number 42 across all teams; Evey year in april every player wear his number, 42. Chadwick Boseman portrayed him in thefilm "42"
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