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TIL that the song April 29, 1992 (Miami) by Sublime isn't about the South Central Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four police police officers in the beating of Rodney King. It's about the Long Beach, CA riots that erupted a few days later as a result of the South Central riots.

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jNMRM TIL that John F. Kennedy, 2 months before his presidency, was almost assassinated by someone driving a dynamite-lading car into his. This was prevented because the assassin saw his wife and kids bid goodbye to Kennedy, thus changing his mind.
19JO TIL that the little dot on a lowercase “i” or “j” is called a “tittle”. There are ten tittles in this title.
PY18e TIL Josef Mengele's bones are used to teach forensic medicine in Brazil's University of São Paulo (USP), in the brazillian state where he lived from 1960 to 1976.
O65Y TIL U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair because a few powerful media conglomerates put profit ahead of the public interest
pXk4 TIL of malariotherapy. The treatment consisted of injecting patients who had developed psychosis as a result of late-stage syphilis with blood from soldiers with malaria. It actually worked and won the Nobel Prize in 1927.