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TIL Venus & Serena Williams boycotted the Indian Wells Open (largest combined tennis tournament in the world) for 14 years after they were targeted with racial slurs and booing by patrons when Venus pulled out of competition moments prior to the semifinal against Serena.

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69eMW TIL that, on average, a dairy cow produces 100 pounds of milk per day, which equates to 12.5 gallons per day!
LkA0Z TIL there was a southern fast food chain called Yogi Bear's Honey-Fried Chicken (and fiberglass statues of Yogi, Boo-Boo, Cindy, and Ranger Smith have been dumped into a "graveyard" behind a truck stop in North Carolina).
OGlya TIL Melpomene and Thalia are the muses of comedy and tragedy. Their faces are the two depicted in the drama masks.
MyYK TIL that Stalin was preparing to invade Germany before Hitler invaded USSR first.
mxy5y TIL of Dick Assman, a Canadian gas station employee whose name made him a celebrity in 1995. David Letterman, learning of him, was amused by Assman's name and made him nightly feature on the show. As his fame grew polling showed that 49 percent of Canadians in September 1995 had heard of him.