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TIL In 2011, regulators fined a Hong Kong TV station $39,000 for airing a report suggesting that former Chinese President Jiang Zemin had died. Jiang later appeared on a TV show with his successor Hu Jintao

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wLp07 TIL that Daisaku Ikeda, a Buddhist philosopher, holds 395 honorary degrees including 202 honorary doctorates from more than 59 countries across the world.
7rD9L TIL that on November 30, 1954, a grapefruit-sized meteorite crashed through the roof of a farm house in Oak Grove, Alabama, bounced off a large wooden console radio, and hit Ann Hodges while she napped on a couch. This was the first documented extraterrestrial object to have injured a human being.
neGr TIL that Edward James Olmos was contacted about being the captain of the Enterprise for The Next Generation but turned it down, only to become the captain of another famous ship later on.
aDlN TIL It is thought that the first vibrator may have been made by Cleopatra, by filling a tube with bees.
XEDvP TIL of the Leatherman, a vagabond who walked an annual 365 mile circuit in Connecticut and New York for over 30 years; he wore handmade leather clothes, slept in caves, and communicated with gestures in broken English, though he was fluent in French. His background, name, and origin are all unknown.