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TIL That in 2018 Bubba Wallace became NASCAR's first full-time African-American driver since Wendell Scott in 1971.

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Z8OlD TIL Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in an NBA game in 1962 but it was not televised and no video footage of the game has since been recovered. NBA wasnt recognized as being a major sports league and struggled to compete against college basketball. No members of the New York press were at the game
PYXZJ TIL when Blazing Saddles was shown on TV, they took out the flatulent symphony in the famous beans scene, leaving a bunch of cowboys standing up and sitting down, like a weird, silent, Western ballet.
vPRLj TIL of the Chinese submarine Ming III, which was found drifting by fishermen in 2003 after all the crew asphyxiated from the diesel engine using all the oxygen. The dead sailors were all at their posts, implying they died quickly without knowing there was a problem.
1aX8r TIL to "troll the ancient yule tide carol" means to “to sing in a full, rolling voice; to chant merrily or jovially.”
ADbKx TIL of the most famous person ever to have literally been in a pickle, Horatio Nelson. He died at sea, so the surgeon on board pickled his body in brandy to preserve it for the long trip to England. 2 weeks into the journey, gaseous pressures burst the cask lid, making Nelson "rise from the dead."