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TIL before Tom Hardy became an actor, he made a mixtape entitled Falling on your Arse and would regularly rap under the name Tommy No 1

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vPLDL TIL about Daniel Waldo, a American Revolutionary War veteran who was also the only man to have voted for both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He lived from 1762 to 1864, and at the age of 94 became the oldest Chaplain for the House of Representatives.
lo7ar TIL that recently-ousted Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe won a lottery of 100,000 Zimbabwe dollars (about $2,600) in 2000. The lottery was organised by a partly state-owned bank and was open to all clients who had kept Z$5,000 or more in their accounts during December 1999.
ONO4 TIL the Chinese government has forcefully harvested organs from roughly 65,000 political prisoners
mLGE TIL that in 1968 Robert F Kennedy said he thought the US would have a black president within 40 years.
leA1 TIL that men actually pioneered wearing high heels and women began wearing them to look more masculine. Men then ditched the heels as not to look feminine. [xpost /r/Feminism]