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[TIL] Janet Cooke returned her Pulitzer prize after world came to know that the news article she wrote for The Washington Post was fictional.

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rR8nx TIL Ed Sullivan went against pressure to not have African American entertainers on his show, and to not interact with them when they appeared. He presented groundbreaking performances by people like Bo Diddley, and presented obscure, less mainstream Black acts he knew from spending time in Harlem.
Epg0 TIL there is one person still living who was born in the 19th Century - Susannah Mushatt Jones, born July 6, 1899
wLJj7 TIL Sisuqo and Bob Newhart almost co-starred in a 2001 NBC sitcom together.
N7xlb TIL After McDonalds lost the Big Mac trademark in Europe, Burger King added things like the “Like a Big Mac, But Actually Big” to the menu
1a4MD TIL during World War 2, Hawaii’s Japanese population—about 158,000, more than one third of the territory’s total population—did not face mass removal and imprisonment similar to what happened on the mainland.