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TIL When Nelson Mandela met Spice Girls in 1997 he described the moment as “One of the greatest moments of my life”.

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5vjp TIL that 60’s counterculture singer Phil Ochs would go on paranoid drunken rants about the FBI watching him. After hanging himself in his sister’s home it was revealed that the FBI had a 500 page file on him.
Melx8 TIL that between 1993-2000, a man only known as “REVS”, spray painted his autobiography, page by page, all over New York City’s subway tunnels. He spray painted over 200 pages.
j6yON TIL that "gladiatrixes" fought to the death in ancient Rome.
D1pbp TIL new Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers are fuzzy on the sole, because this allows them to be taxed as slippers. Slippers have a much lower import tariff than shoes (in the USA.)
E1O00 TIL that the Seven Kingdoms from Game of Thrones are based on a real period of British History called the “Heptarchy”