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TIL in 2009, Harry Connick Jr. was a guest on an Australian talent show where a blackface skit received roaring approval from the crowd. Shocked, he gave the act a 0 and later said had he known about the skit in advance, he wouldn’t have been on the show.

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KOd5R TIL that the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre have been held by one and the same Muslim family since 1517. This is a way of maintaining a neutral guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, since the church is split between multiple Christian denominations.
W7oMX TIL that after the U.S. Civil War former Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens was elected Governor of Georgia.
6aXQ TIL USPS Mail Delivery Vehicles are 25-30 years old & use engines designed in the 1970’s that get 10 MPG
VMkB0 TIL that in the Middle Ages, European dishes were much more rich with complex flavors and spices. This only changed when those spices became available to the lower class and the upper class decided that said spices and dishes were no longer “fashionable”.
NX54e TIL Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married an 18-year-old girl named Mandy Smith. After they divorced, Wyman’s son (30) married Mandy’s mother (46). This made Wyman the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law and step-grandfather of his ex-wife.