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TIL Osama bin Laden came within minutes of killing Bill Clinton

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K00J TIL that when Disneyland opened in 1955, it included a lingerie store with an exhibit on the history of the bra. It was hosted by an animatronic figure called “The Wizard of Bras”
Oo6we TIL - In 1990, BBC’s Tomorrow’s World featured a white, sticky coating with astonishing heat-resisting properties, Starlite. In a demonstration, a raw egg painted with the stuff stayed raw in the heat of a blowtorch. The inventor died in 2011, having failed to strike a deal with any manufacturer.
4Xkw6 TIL of a blood group called Bombay Blood Group originated in India.It is also called the HH group.An extremely rare ABO group. A rare phenotype is generally present in about 0.0004% (4 per million) of the human population, Bombay(Mumbai) locals can have occurrences in as much as 0.01% (1 in 10,000).
OQRL TIL the middle name of Nelson from the Simpsons is ‘Mandela’.
Brkpk TIL Betty White was good friends with famed author John Steinbeck. White's husband Allen Ludden attended the same school as Steinbeck's wife Elaine. The couples became close friends and Steinbeck gave an early draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech to Ludden for his birthday.