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TIL JFK uninvited Sammy Davis Jr to his inauguration because he married a white woman

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Wk4VL TIL In 1990, Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ, daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, gave a false testimony which galvanized support for the first Persian Gulf War
8wk8 TIL, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years.
KrbJ TIL when Harvey Weinstein wanted to edit Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable its director, Miyazaki, sent Weinstein a katana with a message stating “No cuts.”
d84Q7 TIL: The observable universe is a spherical region of the Universe comprising all matter that can be observed from Earth at the present time, because electromagnetic radiation from these objects have had time to reach Earth since the Big Bang. Everywhere has its own observable universe
gMk89 TIL Africa is larger in size than the United States, China and Brazil combined. While Russia, the most populated country in Europe, has a net population of approx. 145 million, Nigeria alone is home to approx. 195 million people. West Africa alone is home to 5% of the world's population.