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TIL a photographer took pictures of a street mime in Central Park in 1974..and 35 years later discovered it was Robin Williams before he was famous

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8a7rL TIL the first Grand Wizard of the KKK later changed his mind and argued in defense of racial equality
4k0ja TIL- Famous writer Larry Niven advised homeland security to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.
BgNWW TIL that as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Abe Fortas, attended White House staff meetings & discussed private Supreme Court deliberations with President Johnson
ADLRa TIL that fried chicken originated from Scotland.
QDwp TIL in 2000, if Al Gore had been granted the recount he asked for, he still would have lost by several hundred votes. But if Florida had recounted every ballot in dispute, he may have won by as few as 60 votes.