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TIL in 2007 a news anchor refused to report on Paris Hilton in the midst of the Iraq war. She ended up burning one copy of the report and shredding another, while still on the air.

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697vJ TIL that when Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes, he was working as a doctor in the NHS. On the day he broke the record, he had already worked a morning shift at St Mary's hospital in London, and then caught the train to Oxford where he ran the race.
6EjyJ TIL Jimi Hendrix mainly played right-handed guitars that were turned upside down and restrung for left-hand playing.
VB11m TIL that a theory is not a theorem. A THEOREM is a statement of fact, that can be logically proven using a set of axioms (baseline assumptions about what’s true). A THEORY is an idea about how the world works, and cannot be proven – it can only be tested.
oRM6E TIL 60% of people in the world don't have a toilet in their home
dMpZ TIL that a higher percentage of free blacks owned slaves (28%) than free whites (1.4%).