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President Gerald Ford stood up for civil rights in 1934 by threatening to quit his college football team, unless they let Willis Ward (African American) play against the south’s Georgia Tech. He agreed to play only after Ward asked him to because they couldn’t afford to lose that game.

In "Her", Theodore uses a safety pin to hold Samantha up in his pocket so she can see while out on a date.

Alexander the Great had Heterochromia Iridum. One of his eyes was blue and the other was brown.

Because the Russians did such a great job embalming Lenin, the Vietnamese flew Ho Chi Minh's co**se to Russia once a year for a "refresh."

Squirrels behave kindly and would adopt orphans if they notice that a relative does not come back to them.

Maculinea rebeli is a species of parasitic butterfly whose larvae can mimic ant larvae (so that worker ants will feed them) and queen ants (to get extra attention). Researchers once observed that when these fake larvae were attacked by the queen ants, ant workers saved the butterflies and attacked their queens.

Politician William M Tweed (widely known as "Boss" Tweed) was brought down by Thomas Nast's cartoons, which painted him as the embodiment of corruption. Tweed said to his aides, “Let's stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers write about me. My constituents can't read but damn it, they can see pictures.”

The 2016 plane crash which killed most of the Brazilian Chapecoense football team was caused by the pilot failing to make necessary fuel stops. The plane ran out of gas while in a holding pattern at its destination airport and fell out of the sky.