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TIL Henry Kissinger was an Honorary Member of The Harlem Globetrotters

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wo8L7 TIL that Operation Valkyrie, a plot to kill Hitler, failed because the bag containing the bomb was moved at the last second by a Nazi Official, saving Hitler
LQb9Q TIL that Kazuyoshi Miura was a Japanese businessman who was accused of being involved in the killing of his wife, Kazumi Miura. The prolonged legal battle, lasting decades, ended when he presumably committed suicide in October 2008.
6BvZ TIL that The Cup Song was first preformed in 1933. By a Bluegrass singer.
BpmL TIL in 1958 while widening a road the RAF discovered that a fifteen year-old display mockup of the biggest bomb ever used in WWII was not merely a mockup but was actually a live bomb.
D1vor TIL about John “Liver Eatin’” Johnson, a Mexican-American War veteran turned mountain man, who in 1847 started a personal vendetta against the Crow Nation after they killed his Flathead wife, he is said to have killed and scalped more than 300 Crows and then ate their livers as a sign of disrespect