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TIL: That Jimmy McMillan, founder of the Rent is Too Damn High Party, was a Vietnam war veteran, R&B recording artist, private investigator and mail carrier.

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8eJ7K TIL that the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961), one of the deadliest famines in history, was significantly worsened by the socialist policies of the Chinese government, leading to an estimated 15-45 million deaths.
wLj7M TIL One April day in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead they played piano music.
7RxO TIL that we haven’t had a bearded president in the United States since 1893.
WRKL TIL of the “self attribution fallacy” which suggests that “If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire”
7rglL TIL After cigarettes were first linked to lung cancer, cigarette companies attempted to make them healthier by adding asbestos filters.