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TIL Italian law forbids school cafeterias from serving deep-fried foods

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YEMA TIL that Mack Robinson, brother of Jackie Robinson, medaled in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Upon returning home to California, the only work he could find as an African American was sweeping streets, which he did while wearing his Olympic ‘USA’ sweatshirt.
wl67 TIL after Tracey Morgan homophobic remark, Tina Fey released a statement reminding him some of his 30 Rock colleagues are gay “without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket”
Z9AR TIL that in 2005, some 1,500 sheep jumped off a cliff, in Turkey. Only the first 450 or so were killed, as the remaining animals’ falls were cushioned by the dead bodies below. More recently 50 sheep on their way to slaughter and jumped to their deaths in an unexplained and unprovoked mass suicide.
78JPX TIL on January 25, 1979, Robert Williams became the first known robot fatality.
e07WE TIL: It's a common response, due to fight-or-flight, for children to hide during house fires. Since they cannot "fight" the danger their natural response is to hide from it.