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TIL Jimmy Carter has been nominated for 9 Grammys and won 2.

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YpAVP TIL The modern conspiracy - The Illuminati, was an art project/protest in the late 60's by a political theorist and a staffer at Playboy to show the public how ridiculous and disempowering it was to think a group of secretive people controlled the world.
R7Yl9 TIL that General LeMay, responsible for the firebombing of 63 Japanese cities during WW2, said “Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”
nNr9 TIL Hugh Hefner owns the letter Y of the hollywood sign
dD78r TIL Many of William Faulkner’s novels are set in a fictional Mississippi county called Yoknapatawpha, which he based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his life.
bRp0 TIL a young Charlie Wilson’s dog was killed by a next door neighbor who was running for city council by mixing crushed glass into the dog’s food. Charlie Wilson retaliated by driving 96 poor black voters to the polls ultimately causing his neighbor to lose the election.