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TIL Jesse Jackson admitted several times he enjoyed spitting in white people’s food.

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p8xYN TIL the Plymouth/Dodge Neon ACR was so competitve in its racing class that SCCA, the governing body, had to start accepting new add-ons for other vehicles to keep them competitive with the Neon.
M7KEa TIL, Today Show's late Willard Scott started as a kid's TV presenter, played Bozo the Clown, and later created Ronald McDonald.
JY4GB TIL that the football huddle was invented at Gallaudet University (a school for the deaf) to stop opponents from reading their hand signs and knowing the play.
RPg6 TIL a creationist used the shape and appearance of the banana as proof of intelligent design. He later retracted his statements upon learning that bananas are a result of artificial selection by humans.
eYGk TIL Harris Rosen offered scholarships to students in a very poor neighborhood, Tangelo Park, who got good grades and completely changed the socioeconomics of the area. He has adopted another neighborhood project but 5 times larger in an area near Orlando called Parramore District.