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TIL right before Rachel Dolezal was outed as white, she was a slated to testify as a supporting witness against her brother, Joshua Dolezal; who allegedly molested her and an unnamed minor on several occasions.

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WKXX TIL in July 2016, Maurice Micklewhite offically changed his name to his stage name Michael Caine. An airport security guard would say, ‘Hi, Michael Caine,’ and suddenly I’d give him a passport with a different name on it. I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name.”
9w75D TIL that despite the popular belief that women weren't allowed to watch the ancient Olympics because the athletes competed naked, only married women couldn't actually attend the competition. Unmarried women were welcome and the priestess of Demeter even had a privileged spot
e0We5 TIL about the Fermi Paradox, a concept from the 1950s named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, that highlights the apparent disparity between estimates of intelligent life on other planets and a conspicuous lack of such evidence thus far in our exploration.
yVWel TIL of The Phoebus cartel. It was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of light bulbs in much of Europe and North America. The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours.
v1JJj TIL the first US President to be photographed while in office was William H. Harrison in 1841. 48 years later, in 1889, his grandson Benjamin Harrison became the first US President to have his voice recorded