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TIL Futurama writer Ken Keeler invented and proved a mathematical theorem strictly for use in the plot of an episode

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g8Zb TIL Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.
9a7p TIL in 2013 Europe was hit by a horse meat scandal, in which 300 tons of horse meat was found throughout the EU food supply labeled as beef. The source was traced to a Romanian slaughterhouse, who sold it as horse meat to a chain of Cyprus, Dutch, and Irish resellers who mislabeled it.
0dynL TIL Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago Midway Gardens complex, which only lasted from 1914 to 1929, "was so solidly constructed that tearing it down sent the wrecking company into bankruptcy."
nWWvr TIL That when legendary Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong Torres got married the wedding photographer was Annie Leibovitz.
PgAn TIL That Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi when it first aired (1970) due to the “highly integrated cast of children”…