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TIL when Billie Holiday died, she had 70 cents in her bank account and $750 taped to her leg.

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6rOm TIL that Jack Nicholson passed up the role of Michael Corleone in the Godfather. “Back then I believed that Indians should play Indians and Italians should play Italians.”
6pQ8 TIL that Gorbachev’s Glasnost reforms uncovered so many cover-ups about events in the Soviet Union that all school history exams in 1988 were cancelled.
gM8B9 TIL that Duke, the Great Pyrenees, has been elected not once, not twice, but three times as mayor of Cormorant, MN, US. And that he’s not the only animal current serving as an elected city official.
Ww7L TIL on Google News you can search and read old print newspapers, going as far back as 1752
OGKyY TIL about Michael Servetus, a theologian who in 1553 fled the Catholics to avoid heresey charges, only to be burnt by Calvanists instead.