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TIL that Andrè the Giant,while drunk in New York City, fell on a man,seriously hurting him. Afterwards ,the NYPD sent undercover cops to tail him when he was in the city to avoid such incidents

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jNeGM TIL there are various types of planned obsolescence, such as: contrived durability, prevention of repairs, perceived obsolescence, systemic obsolescence, and programmed obsolescence.
b6mEN TIL: Olivia Newton-John and Ben Elton are third cousins
QJ0Ak TIL that the first woman to run for President of the United States was Victoria Woodhull in 1872, 50 years before women could vote. She had Frederick Douglass as her running mate, and spent election day in jail due to being arrested for obscenity.