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TIL Alex Haley, author of Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, conducted the first Playboy interview. He later interviewed some of the most prominent figures of the 1960s for the magazine including MLK and George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party.

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Wk0y4 TIL the longest prison sentence ever handed out is 141,078 years to Chamoy Thipyaso of Thailand - for running a pyramid scheme that defrauded members of the Thai royal family.
YNGd TIL of Toxoplasmosis Gondii, a brain parasite spread through cat feces, which slows rats, and causes attraction to cats. This parasite is transmissible to humans, and can cause humans to excessively care for cats. Also, infected female humans(&rats) are more likely to find infected males attractive.
YN4A TIL that the Pyongyang Central Zoo has a parrot which can squawk “Long live the Great Leader, Comrade Kim Il-sung” in English.
X0ooE TIL mathematician Bernhard Riemann Riemann laid the foundations of the mathematics of general relativity. He also refused to publish incomplete work, and after his death, his housekeeper discarded many unfinished papers. Due to this, some deep insights from him may have been lost forever.
6EgoZ TIL Ghengis Khan was responsible for killing an entire city of 1.75 million men, women, children, and pets. The people were decapitated to ensure they were dead and the heads we're stacked into pyramids.