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TIL the phrase "zig-a-zig ah" from the hit song "Wannabe" by Spice Girls comes from "shit and cigars," a nickname given to a man in their recording studio that disliked the Spice Girls and had a habit of taking dumps while smoking cigars in their shared bathroom.

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kOyGW TIL: In 1989, the football team of Mississippi segregationist private school Heritage Academy added the first black player in their football conference of “seg” academies. Two schools forfeited rather than play the school with a black reserve running back.
9wQPQ [TIL] Tinted lenses can help with some forms of Dyslexia.
9Wy6 TIL in 1955 there was no federal statute that made it a crime to blow up a plane. So the bomber of Flight 629, Jack Graham, was charged with a single count of murdering his mother. All passengers and crew (44) were killed.
VmyZ TIL That in World War I, the Germans tried to use a picture of Quentin Roosevelt’s body as propoganda to increase moral. This backfired, as soldiers wondered why the sons of American Presidents were fighting and dying at the front, while the Kaiser’s sons were not.
1agl4 TIL there are 13 secret green shelters built in 1875 dotted around London that only cab drivers can enter.