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TIL Tommy Davidson (comedian) was abandoned in the trash at 18 months old, before being rescued by a white woman who became his adoptive mother.

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6ELYW TIL 15-yr-old Temar Boggs & a friend saved a 5-yr-old girl from a kidnapper; the teens saw the girl in the kidnapper's car & chased the car on their bicycles. After a 15 min. chase, the driver apparently knew he was being followed, stopped & let the girl out.
DxdJ TIL Willie Nelson smoked a joint on the rooftop of the White House as Secret Service looked on.
G4xQ TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour and dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to help find a stranded yacht off the Australian coast. It took the passengers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was activated to locate the yacht.
0woJj TIL that brown is exactly the same as orange, and we differentiate both by the things surrounding them.
ANb7a TIL that in the Queens of the Stone Age song “the lost art of keeping a secret” the main chorus is “whatever you do, don’t tell anyone” and is not “whatever you do, I’m telling your mom”