TIL the first player to play in Negro League Baseball who would go on to play for a current MLB team was not Jackie Robinson but Pedro Dibut, a White Hispanic player from Cuba who played for Cuban Stars in 1923 and the Cincinnati Reds in 1924 by whatilearned May 11, 2022, 2:22 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
3 Comments TIL Baseball legend Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a bus. Six violations of the Articles of War were the charges. by whatilearned February 16, 2022, 1:32 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
TIL before he broke the racial barrier in baseball, Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for standing up against racism in the US military. by whatilearned January 26, 2022, 9:18 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
1 Comment TIL about hayy ibn yaqzan. An immensely influential Arabic allegory/philosophical novel about a wild boy on an island who achieves a state of perfection and higher knowledge just by observing his surroundings. It is thought to have influenced/inspired Robinson Crusoe among other things. by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 3:25 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
1 Comment TIL about Cedric Robinson, the longest-serving Queen’s Guide to the Sands (a job created in 1548) that paid £15 a year and came with a cottage with no electricity or running water. For 56 years Cedric guided walkers across the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay, in the NW of England. by whatilearned November 20, 2021, 3:44 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
1 Comment TIL that Jackie Robinson had an older brother whose time in the 200m run at the 1936 Olympics would have been an Olympic record… except that he finished behind Jesse Owens. by whatilearned November 4, 2021, 4:53 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
TIL that Sugar Ray Robinson a famous boxer had a Disturbing Dream that He Killed Someone in the Boxing ring the day before his match. After being convinced to fight, his opponent Jimmy Doyle gets knocked out by a left hook by Sugar ray in the 8th round later dying the next day. by whatilearned November 2, 2021, 1:45 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
1 Comment TIL that Doane Robinson, the historian who came up with the idea for Mount Rushmore, initially didn’t want it to feature former presidents. Robinson wanted sculptures of Lewis and Clark, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chief Red Cloud and other Sioux warriors but the sculptor refused to focus on regional heroes by whatilearned October 31, 2021, 2:31 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
4 Comments TIL that to celebrate Fiji’s annexation in 1874, Governor Hercules Robinson took Fijian King Cakobau and his two sons to Sydney. All three came down with measles, but the colonial administrators did not quarantine the ship; a measles epidemic would kill about 1/3 of Fiji’s population. by whatilearned October 30, 2021, 9:41 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
3 Comments TIL David ROBINSON is the only basketball player who was both a part of the 1988 US Olympic Team who won Bronze at Seoul in 1988 and the 1992 “Dream Team” that won Gold in Barcelona. by whatilearned August 6, 2021, 12:20 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments TIL Wataru Misaka the first non-white NBA player described his first game as “It wasn’t a big thing” and “Nobody cared.” the same year Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier by whatilearned April 17, 2021, 6:51 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
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