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TIL: Homer Simpson guest starred on episode of L.A. Law in 1992

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WkwMd TIL Charlie Soong sent his three daughters to study in America because China was unsafe. One daughter married China's richest man, the other married China's first president and became Honorary President herself. The youngest was also China's First Lady but later moved to Taiwan and lived to 106
AD1p7 TIL Thích Quảng Đức, the person in the famous picture of a burning monk, was re-cremated but his heart did not burn with the rest of the remains.
e0KMn TIL that broccoli is a human innovation and a man-made food, being a result of the selective breeding of wild cabbage plants started around the 6th century BC
VMQlQ TIL in 2017, five Denver nurses were suspended for opening a body bag and “admiring” the size of the dead man’s genitals.
6EK57 TIL that one of JFK's favorite books begin with the funeral of Edward VII, at that point the world's largest gathering of world leaders for a state funeral. The first funeral to have more world leaders present was JFK's own burial.