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TIL the show “Everybody Hates Chris” has a large fanbase in Brazil

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X0VrR TIL a woman was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for randomly shoving an 87 year old woman down in NYC who turned out to be a broadway singing coach
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Y7XGr TIL in 1974 Whitey Bulger and an accomplice set fire to an elementary school to intimidate a judge that mandated a plan to desegregate schools in Boston by busing. A year later he threw a Molotov cocktail into JFK's birthplace in retaliation of Sen. Ted Kennedy supporting Boston school desegregating