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R5W94 TIL that Cartoon Network used to sponsor the Orange Arrows F1 racing team back in the year 2000
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b9gpN TIL about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old African American girl from Montgomery, AL who was arrested in 1955 after she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman, telling the bus driver, "It's my constitutional right to sit here." She did this 9 months prior to Rosa Parks' famous protest.