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TIL that in 1951 Koreans were banned from the Boston marathon

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WWN9 TIL there’s a 47 year old burger encased in resin that’s archived in the Alberta Legislature Building
mx07O TIL when the game Twister was first introduced in 1966, one of Milton Bradley’s competitors denounced the game & accused them of selling “sex in a box”, & Sears refused to put it in their catalog, deeming it inappropriate. But after Johnny Carson featured it on ‘The Tonight Show’, sales skyrocketed.
M80b TIL in 1959, a group attempting to find the path used by Hannibal’s army to cross the Alps and invade Roman Italy successfully traversed the Alps from France to Italy with an 11yr old former circus elephant named Jumbo.
4X1Go TIL Craig Ferguson won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
M8Z0 TIL of the “Tocqueville Effect” which states that as social conditions and opportunities improve, social frustration grows more quickly.