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TIL: Lethal Weapon Actor Danny Glover held a press conference in 1999 because Taxis weren’t stopping for him in New York City

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kg05 TIL Playboy Magazine’s first Playmate of the Month was Margie Harrison, Miss January 1954, and not Marilyn Monroe, as is commonly said.
W1bN TIL In 1982 a 15 year old runaway lived in an elevator shaft for 2 months. He rewired the elevator to work as he wanted, and was caught when residents smelled cooking hot dogs.
7wXr TIL that NASA has discovered stars with temperatures lower than the human body. The star ‘WISE 1828+2650’ is less than 80 degrees Fahrenheit (25 Celsius).
GlBg TIL that the white guy from the iconic 1968 Olympic Black Power salute was shunned by his home country, Australia, and wasn’t even allowed to participate at the 2000 Sydney Games
Y9GP TIL there are more than 1 million Catholics in Saudi Arabia