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TIL about John Howard Griffin, a journalist who in 1959 took anti-vitiligo drugs and spent 15 hours daily under an ultraviolet lamp to temporarily "become" a black man and travel through the South for six weeks.

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xVY4B TIL that in Tongan mythology the God Tafakula defeated his enemy gods by straddling an island. He then bent over, to show his anus, which shone brightly like the sun, scaring off the other gods.
woxL8 TIL about Carlos Kaiser, a Brazilian con artist, who made a career playing for 10 different professional football teams (including three clubs where he was able to get a contract for a second stint after a break elsewhere) without ever making a senior appearance for any of them.
KGn6 TIL one of the Congressional originators of the House Committee on Un-American Activities was a Soviet spy
pg6G TIL human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a major problem, and is even threatening the spread of disease. Nearly 700 climbers brave the world’s tallest peak each season but not all of them dispose of their trash, urine and feces properly.
oBLpo TIL Anna Nicole Smith never actually got money when her 90-year-old husband died. His will left his $1.6 billion estate to his son and nothing to her.