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TIL the Domino's logo has 3 dots to represent the original 3 locations in Michigan.

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kg9E TIL when Nancy Reagan asked Miles Davis what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation to a White House in 1987, he responded with “Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?”
1avQX TIL There was a family kept in slavery as late as 1961 in Mississippi.
Lk6Yv TIL that in former US President Gerald Ford’s senior year as a football player at the University of Michigan, when Georgia Tech refused to play if a black player named Willis Ward (and Ford’s best friend on the team) took the field, Ford threatened to quit the team in response
xmB0 TIL that the parents of the Columbine shooters were sued by some of the victims’ families for 2.5 million dollars and that this cost was covered by their Homeowners Insurance.
yVJRv TIL that the largest rainforest in Southern Africa was unknown to the outside world until it was discovered via Google Earth satellite images in 2011. It sits on top of a “410-foot sheer rock protuberance”, making it virtually untouched by humans until recent research trips.