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TIL about U-Haul lesbians

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d9G9 TIL that the trend of baggy shorts in the NBA was started by Michael Jordan because he wanted to wear his UNC shorts under his Bulls shorts.
KWgJ TIL that Rhode Island fielded a regiment during the Revolutionary war filled with Black soldiers, because they couldn’t get enough Whites to sign up.
neKA7 TIL that Rodney Dangerfield smoked pot at the White House during the Reagan administration.
9Ynvp TIL anthropologists consider society’s reaction to human sex trafficking to be a “moral panic,” with inflated data points and well-publicized “horror stories” that have little basis in reality.