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TIL president JFK refused to let Sammy Davis Jr perform at the white house because he was black and married a white woman

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x6a0D TIL that Jonathan Nolan said of his brother Christopher, "I’ve always suspected that it has something to do with the fact that he’s left-handed and I’m right-handed, because he is somehow able to look at my ideas and flip them around in a way that’s just a bit more twisted and interesting"
wka6 TIL that tropical rainforests have some of the most infertile soils found on the planet - all of the nutrients are locked in the vegetation.
Y70r7 TIL Dave Coulier knew Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" was about him when he heard the line "I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner" as she once called him after the break up and asked if she could call back because he was in the middle of dinner. When he heard it, he went "uh oh."
Me45K TIL The most expensive instrument in the world is the “Lady Blunt” Stradivarius violin, which sold in 2011 for $15.9 million(U.S).
OlLL TIL that the Sun is actually white, it just appears yellow to us through the Earth’s atmosphere