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TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.

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jQ0M TIL that New York City has started replacing the swords stolen from public statues decades ago as crime has gone down and the city has become a “safer place.”
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grdWb TIL A man ripped a leopard's tongue out in self defense and kill it.
kOW1d TIL that the Wizengamot in Harry Potter is inspired by the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot (=meeting of wise men)