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TIL the first and longest running “reality show”, is a tv documentary about the lives of 14 seven year olds from United kingdom and it is updated every 7 years. They just turned 56.

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Wk4AN 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.
E1OMp TIL That Bob Beamon had a lifelong goal of being the first athlete to ever pass 28 feet in a long jump. After the official measurement coming out to 29 feet and 2.5 inches in the 1968 Olympics, he became so full of emotion that his muscles literally began to collapse.
lWX5 TIL that John F. Kennedy was assassinated 52 years ago today. The last thing he heard before he died was Texas Governor John Connally’s wife Nellie saying “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.”
QlEL TIL 9 people have died of laughter
LM5Q TIL that Poliwag is the favorite Pokémon of Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon.