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TIL current Miss America, Kira Kazantsev, was expelled from her sorority, Alpha Phi, for cruel hazing.

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BZly TIL when Anders Celsius invented the temperature scale, he put 100 degrees as the point for freezing and 0 degrees as the point for boiling. Another scientist, Carl Linnaeus, waited until Celsius had died to change the scale to the way we read it today.
4Xyga TIL UFC1 had no weight classes and just 3 rules - no biting, eye gouging, or groin shots. There was no time limit and the winner, Royce Gracie, had to fight 3 guys in the same day on November 12, 1993, to win.
Ab7d TIL in 2009, Harry Connick Jr. was a guest on an Australian talent show where a blackface skit received roaring approval from the crowd. Shocked, he gave the act a 0 and later said had he known about the skit in advance, he wouldn’t have been on the show.
vP6W8 TIL Mariah Carey was secretly in an alt-rock/“riot grrrl” band called Chick, inspired by Hole and Sleater-Kinney, that she would record at the end of the day while making her Daydream record. She’s the background vocals.
EBVd TIL the world’s largest grocery wholesale company is based in a nondescript office in Keene, New Hampshire. The company uses unmarked trucks and the owner hasn’t given an interview in over a decade.