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TIL Mr T stopped wearing his gold chains after Hurricane Katrina as he felt it would be insensitive to people who have lost their possessions.

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JYr9Q TIL the USA nuclear missile fleet is controlled by 1960’s computers with no internet to prevent hacking.
16Gar TIL that Paul Hogan - aka Crocodile Dundee - got his start in show business on a TV talent show. He billed himself as a tap-dancing knife thrower, but could do neither. It was a fake act done specifically to make the judges look foolish.
jN41n TIL Auld Lang Syne served as the national anthem of the Korean exile government and from 1945 to 1948, it was the melody of South Korea's national anthem.
KYvA6 TIL in 1952, many of Adlai Stevenson's friends and associates led a "draft Stevenson" movement to make him run for President and continued even when he told them to stop.
m9eM TIL in 1980, a German reporter by the name of Jurgen Heinzpeter, exposed the atrocities of the South Korean government during the Gawngju Uprising. He snuck into Gwangju with the help of a local taxi driver and documented the killing of civilian protesters.