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TIL that in 1957, then Vice President Nixon was celebrating the independence of Ghana when he asked a group of men how it felt to be free. They replied, “We wouldn’t know. We’re from Alabama.”

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7087 TIL Larry King has been married eight times to seven women, including to a playboy bunny, a math teacher, and a devout Mormon. He had been married twice before his current wife was even born, and he and his current wife married in a hospital room days before he went into heart surgery.
MeXGA TIL that, until recently, the Houston, TX police department regularly used Whataburger order numbers to mark crime scenes.
bLL4 TIL that if a child loses their fingertip it may sometimes grow back (nail, bone and all), though without a fingerprint.
EgKXx TIL Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she took a printout of her problem to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to actor Jack Black.
OoVoa TIL Tommy Hilfiger has a line of clothes for disabled people. Tommy Adaptive has details like magnetic zippers, velcro closures, and seated cuts (for wheelchairs).