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TIL Jerry Springer had to resign from Cincinnati’s city council due to a check of his being found in an illegal brothel.

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5AVB TIL there is a 1909 Penny on Mars, which is used as a part of a Calibration Target on The Curiosity Rover
eBX6 TIL that Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
9Gvm TIL that the Isley Brothers were the only group to have a top 50 Billboard hit in the ‘50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and the 2000s.
YvyZ TIL that White wife/Black husband marriages are twice as likely to divorce by the 10th year of marriage compared to White/White couples, however, with Black wife/White husband marriages, divorce by the 10th year of marriage is 44% less likely than among White/White unions
9EEB TIL that having children in your early 20s was a US cultural norm only for baby boomers, and that earlier in the 20th-century eugenicists had warned against it