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TIL the inventor of headphones was picked up by the US Navy after being rejected by private investors.

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8aryL TIL Actor Billy Dee Williams (Lando from StarWars) Promotes A Life View Without The Concept Of Race. He Sees Himself As A "Universal Being Part Of The Cosmos" And Since The 80s Has Criticized Show Business For Creating Race Stereotypical Characters Which He Has Avoided As An Actor.
5Gn8 TIL A language teacher volunteered to teach troubled black high school students French in Watts, California after the race riots. The principal warned him he would “be sorry” but within a few weeks students were speaking to each other in French
OoG61 TIL that Vladimir Lenin’s perfectly preserved body is on display in Moscow. He died in 1924 and was born in 1870, making his body 147 years old.
QNXB6 TIL the Turkish national sport is oil wrestling where men cover themselves in olive oil and then wrestle. It is also allowed to slip your hand into other wrestler shorts.
v7MK TIL that turning your body into a tree once you die and having forests instead of traditional cemeteries is an upcoming burial method.