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TIL that when Russell Brand and Katy Perry divorced he was elligible to half of her $44M she made during their marriage but he refused to take any of that money.

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0aOj TIL that a 61 Year Old Farmer, Cliff Young won a Sydney-to-Melbourne (875 kilometers) endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.
JYBvB TIL that the Indian Government refused to pass on meteorological information about a cyclone to their rival, Pakistan. The cyclone went on to kill over half a million people in East Pakistan (Today Bangladesh).
VMRXG TIL in 1967, when the first black mayor of Washington D.C. sent his first budget to the House Committee on District of Columbia, chairman John L. McMillan of South Carolina responded by sending back a truck full of watermelons.
7glP TIL Stalin’s real last name was Dzhugashvili. Stalin is Russian for Man of Steel.
kOMWg TIL of "Rubygate", where Ruby Rubacuori, 17-years old, claimed Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi gave her $10,000 at private parties. Ruby told prosecutors that Berlusconi held orgies where 20 young women performed an African ritual known as "bunga bunga" nude.