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TIL the show "Politically Incorrect" was cancelled because it's host said something politically incorrect about 9/11

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vmOK TIL in 1981, Pope John Paul II, survived multiple close-range gun shot wounds, and went to visit the shooter in prison, where he forgave him. The shooter recently returned to the scene of the shooting to place flowers on the pope’s tomb.
yQGbJ TIL that General Motors chemist Thomas Midgley Jr. invented both chlorofluorocarbons and leaded gasoline, having "more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
mApo TIL the ugli is a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit, an orange, and a tangerine. Named ‘ugly’ for its unsightly, rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind.
4X9Nb TIL of Operation Dawn Raid, where Malaysia acquired Guthrie on 7 September 1981, the oldest and 2nd largest plantation company on London Stock Exchange by surprise.
BroNb TIL Nigerian-Americans are the most educated ethnic group in the United States. According to the Migrations Policy Institute, 29% of Nigerian-Americans have graduate degrees (compared to 11% of the overall American population)