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TIL Henry Kissinger was an Honorary Member of The Harlem Globetrotters

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GANr4 TIL that in 2014 planning permission was granted to turn a disused Victorian building in London’s East End into a “Museum of Women’s History”. Locals were shocked the next year when the museum was unveiled as the “Jack the Ripper Museum”, leading to numerous protests
EmwV TIL co-founder of the charity Planting Peace purchased a house across the street from Westboro Baptist Church and hired a military veteran to painted it Rainbow.
6NV8 TIL that when you receive a kidney transplant, it’s placed in a lower abdomen and the failed kidneys are usually not removed, leaving you with three kidneys.
Me8MB TIL that though 355 of 100,000 people identify as trans, only 9.2 request or receive surgery or hormone therapy
J1Jrj TIL about Eternal September: How a 1993 AOL promotion led to year-round influxes of new users, a phenomenon that previously only occurred each September with new computer science students.