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TIL that in 1986, former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser was robbed of his pants and wallet while drugged in a Memphis, TN hotel

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WkQwX TIL that Kendrick Lamar, an american rapper, won the Pulitzer Prize for Musical Composition for his album DAMN earlier this year making him the first non-jazz or Classical artist to ever win the prize in history.
N7JD1 TIL there is a neighborhood called "The Hole" in NYC. It has no streetlights, sidewalks, or sewers, and it sits 12 feet below the surrounding area (hence the name). It was once home to a farming town, black cowboys, the mob, until finally earning the reputation of the worst neighborhood in NYC
X0mZ6 TIL about Comstock laws. This Act criminalized any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items:[2] obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual content or information.
4XnLg TIL that Indian voters get right to reject all election candidates. The Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission to provide a button on the voting machine which would give voters the option to choose "none of the above".
ZXWv TIL Weird Al Yankovic has asked permission from Prince to parody his songs on numerous occasions, and has always been refused. When the two were assigned to sit in the same row at an award’s show, he got a telegram from Prince’s lawyers demanding he not make eye contact