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TIL 20,000 American Nazis gathered at Madison Square Garden in 1939 while 80,000 Americans gathered outside in protest

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x69AB TIL In 1990, Muhammad Ali defied then-President George H.W. Bush's wishes by traveling to Iraq, where he secured the release of 15 American citizen hostages held in Iraqi prisons and brought them home. ( President Bush would eventually award him the Medal Of Freedom.)
Bevk TIL that if we had a spacecraft that could “simply” accelerate at a constant 1g (the acceleration rate of free-falling objects due to gravity), then the passengers would be able to travel through the entire KNOWN universe, not merely the observable universe, in just one lifetime.
X0VxX TIL Jayne Mansfield's bosom(40D-21-36)was behind bra development in the 50's & she helped popularize bikinis. She slept w/both John&Bobby Kennedy,was dubbed Hollywood's smartest dumb blonde with an IQ over 160 & was the 1st major Am. actress to perform in a nude scene post silent era.She died at 34.
1jDP TIL In 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.
BrbXL TIL: That a dead fish, if placed in the wake of an object in a stream of water, can "swim" upstream.