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TIL Bill Gates received an honorary knighthood from the Queen but as an American Citizen he cannot use the title “Sir”

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Aa9l TIL more than 60 percent of bankruptcies are the result of medical bills. In people’s time of greatest need, our medical system burdens them with debt.
6LVZ TIL that a man spent 28 years in jail before a DNA test concluded that the hair found at the crime scene actually came from a dog.
pjlZ TIL In 1992 rapper Mac Dre was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and sentenced to 5 years in prison after he refused a police deal, which was informing law enforcement about his partners. While awaiting trial Mac Dre recorded a full album over the phone, taunting law enforcement officials.
VBKnQ TIL the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts is unknown
5V19r TIL The first time Bobby Kennedy spoke publicly about his brother, President John F. Kennedy's, assassination was while telling a majority-black crowd in Indianapolis that Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed, which is credited with keeping the city calm, while other cities erupted in violence.