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TIL Dr. Henry Kissinger was the first honourary member of the Harlem Globetrotters

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6E7Lm TIL The Soviet Union had an internationally televised song contest. As few viewers had phones, they would turn their lights on if they liked a song and off if they didn’t. The power spikes were recorded by the state energy company and the reports sent to the station to pick the winner.
ONQg TIL Elephants have been known to extract spears from wounded friends, and to stay with infants born with disabilities.
WkawA TIL Paul Biya of Cameroon is the longest serving non-royal leader in the world, having begun his term in June 1975, making a total of 45 years in office.
xjR1 TIL all the poop generated on the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier will be vaporized by plasma.
xQrD TIL George Washington’s best spy, code named ‘Culper Jr.’, was only identified as Robert Townsend nearly 150 years after the war because a Long Island historian named Morton Pennypacker recognized his handwriting from some business receipts and matched it to intelligence correspondence.