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TIL Dean Martin refused to attend JFK’s inauguration because Sammy Davis, Jr (who helped Kennedy campaign) wasn’t allowed to attend because he was black.

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yeya TIL Uruguay’s president lives in a farm-house with no servants. Has two security guards. Donates 90 percent of his salary, has a net worth of $1,800, and drives a 1987 VW Beetle. He has sold the seaside presidential palaces, advocates for legalizing marijuana, and same-sex marriage.
XEn8E TIL Elizabeth Eckford of the little rock 9 was alone on the day of that iconic photo because her family had no telephone!
78yO7 TIL there is a female version of blue balls called blue vulva
Z99a TIL that the author of Hatchet, Gary Paulsen, has seen shark attacks, saw his mother beat a potential molester to death in front of him, learned to shoot as a child on a naval boat, has competed in the Iditarod and a bunch of other insane stuff…
Y6Vd TIL of a stinging tree called the Gympie Gympie. It secretes a toxin that is so painful that is has driven humans and animals to suicide. It feels like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted simultaneously. A man shot himself after using a leaf from the tree as toilet paper.