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TIL on a banned episode of Sesame Street Oscar the Grouch fell in love with the Wicked Witch of the West

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BEe TIL: There were once Africans on display in the Bronx Zoo
0daVR TIL On the 1955 Episode of "This Is Your Life" in which Hiroshima survivor Kiyoshi Tanimoto, thinking he was doing a straight interview, is instead treated to a surprise meeting with the man who piloted the Enola Gay, Capt. Robert Lewis, co-pilot and aircraft commander.
e0Pmk TIL that football player Didier Drogba stopped a Civil War in the Ivory Coast following qualification for the World Cup. He pleaded with the warring factions to lay down their arms during an interview in the dressing room following a game.
jNmoj TIL a customer asked Marco Pierre White if he could have chips with his lunch, White hand cut and personally cooked the chips, but charged the customer £25 for his time.
VB1j4 TIL: About the "Tyrant King" Yeonsangun of Korea. Known as the worst tyrant in Korean history he launched 2 purges, seized hundreds of women to be "entertainers", and turned the royal university into a pleasure ground. His father, the previous king, was known as being liberal and kind.