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TIL Henry Kissinger was an Honorary Member of The Harlem Globetrotters

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8VOZ TIL Marvel has a hero named Squirrel Girl, who in her first appearance defeated Doctor Doom by commanding an army of squirrels to attack him. She has also defeated the likes of Wolverine, Deadpool, Galactus and Thanos offscreen.
WkRx4 TIL that Prince has used many names in his lifetime, such as Alexander Nevermind, Christopher Tracy, The Kid, The Purple Purv, The Minneapolis Midget, & finally The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. As a child he was called Skipper.
lB4B TIL a man in Florida has received over 115,000 joints from the federal government since 1983 and continues to receive them for his rare bone cancer.
kJLGE TIL that Resident Evil 1 writer Kenichi Iwao conceived of Chris's surname Redfield under the presumption that it's a fictional name entirely of his original creation that nobody has the real world until 2020 when he found out about the then CDC director Dr Robert Redfield in a news report
xyo1 TIL the 27th amendment to the Constitution, which restricts the ability of Congress to raise its own pay, was ratified in 1992, more than 200 years after the first state approved it in 1789.