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TIL in 1950 Milton Berle risked his newfound TV stardom at its zenith to challenge Texaco when the sponsor tried to prevent black performers from appearing on his show.

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x6Ook TIL Poison translates to Gift in German
XEbgk TIL in 1872, a group of hunters in India captured and 'saved' a 6-year-old feral boy they saw trailing behind a pack of wolves in the forest. The boy only ate meat, despised wearing clothes, sharpened his teeth on bones and communicated in animal noises. He might've served as inspiration for Mowgli
x8EB TIL that in 1965 a ‘grossly obese’ man survived without eating for 1 year and 17 days. He lived entirely off his copious body fat and ended up losing 125kg of weight with no adverse effects. Also, he only pooped every 40 - 50 days.
vRWK TIL that London Mayor Boris Johnson saved a woman from being assaulted by a group of teenagers. The woman later called him her “Knight on a shining bicycle.”
nL4d TIL America’s largest mental hospital is a jail.