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TIL that Craig Hodges, one of the best NBA players of his generation and an outspoken activist, was blacklisted from the league after wearing a dashiki during a White House visit and giving Bush Sr. a letter criticizing his administration’s treatment of the poor and minorities

EVXX TIL that Bob Jones University in South Carolina banned interracial dating until the year 2000
xV5Pg TIL Actor Will Smith was offered the role of Neo for The Matrix, but turned it down to make Wild Wild West instead.
6E0lY TIL that Breads in mediaeval Europe were ranked on the basis of classes of people it served.
yVyOV TIL That anteaters have no teeth.
BgxGy TIL: In 1914 The Suffragettes tried to blow up the Coronation Chair