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TIL traditional Cherokee clothing includes turbans

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V018 TIL Joe Namath, being from a largely black community in Pennsylvania, attended the University of Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, and was often involved in fights with white teammates and other white southerners while defending African Americans.
QJlXd TIL in 1946, a black WWII veteran was taking a bus home in uniform, and asked the driver to stop for a bathroom break. The driver called the police, and the local chief of police arrested the man, beat him, and gouged out his eyes with a nightstick. The officer was acquitted by an all-white jury.
00by TIL there is video of someone born in the 1700s.
oBm1L TIL that the character Oscar the Grouch has gone on record as being a Canadian, though he tries to keep his Canadian identity a secret, because he doesn't want people to like him.
PYyNL TIL Baileys was invented in 1973 by a South African man, David Gluckman, working for a London marketing agency designing drinks for an Irish company. The name was inspired by a local restaurant, Baileys Bistro.