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TIL Mike Tyson was arrested 38 times by the time he turned 13.

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grBoy TIL Denzel Washington, the actor who never watches his own films and shuns fame.
dygZ TIL in 1918, after a white man was killed by a black man, a white mob went on a week-long riot and killed at least 13 people, including an African-American woman. She was burned alive, and her unborn baby was cut from her stomach and crushed because she spoke out against her husband’s murder.
pElb TIL that Genghis Khan beheaded a city of over 1.75 million people because one of the citizens killed his son-in-law
QgwX TIL Weird Al Yankovic said he knew he’d made it as a famous musician when he went to a party, saw Paul McCartney and before he could introduce himself to the former Beatle, McCartney recognized him and said, “Hey! It’s Weird Al!”
6EK8Q TIL St. Cassian of Imola was martyred by having the students he was teaching stab him to death with iron styli.