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TIL about Strom Thurmond filibuster. On 28 August 1957, US Senator Strom Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster failed to prevent the passage of the bill

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p8edZ TIL in 1958, a white girl kissed two African American boys, aged 9 and 7, on the cheeks. The two boys were arrested, detained for 6 days without access to their parents or legal counsel, and were severely beaten by the police. The boys were detained for a total of 3 months.
6E9Bw TIL Disney instructed the game developers for the 1994 Lion King on Sega Genesis to create a puzzle level so hard that the game cannot be beaten within a period of time to extend and meet Blockbuster rental program rules and the rental market.(starts at 18:30)
x6Bko TIL Michael Jackson only agreed to 10 shows for his "This is It" concert series but his managers went ahead and increased it to 50. His father Joe Jackson was concerned from the beginning that promoters were pushing Michael too hard, resulting in his death
KYEMw TIL that the world's largest recorded snowman was 113 feet tall and built in Maine in 2008
9w0kX TIL Nikola Tesla predicted the rise of the modern smartphone over a century ago. He described a world where people would communicate wirelessly across the globe with devices small enough to carry in their pockets, envisioning what he called “a world wireless system.”