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TIL of Alan Francis, who has won 8 consecutive World Horseshoe Championship titles, and 16 of the 17 years. He has a total of 24 World Horseshoe Championship titles. The New York Times has even referred to him as the “most dominant athlete in any sport in the country"

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oeOo TIL Axl Rose’s original concept for the Sweet Child o’ Mine music video was to depict a drug trafficker carrying her child into a foreign country. It would then be revealed the child was dead and full of heroin.
1aBN4 TIL In 1969, Samuel L Jackson was expelled from Morehouse for holding the board of trustees hostage, including MLK Sr., demanding reform in the school's curriculum and governance. His mother, afraid of him becoming a person of interest for the FBI, sent him to LA where he began acting.
4kMeo TIL that in 1992 Detroit News compared a theoretical performance of Godzilla unleashed upon 1972 Detroit in Sim City to the outcome of two decades of rule by mayor Coleman Young and came to a conclusion that Detroit would be better off with the monster
R8P4 TIL police are using a medical diagnosis not recognized by the AMA or APA, to explain deaths while in custody.
grAjX TIL "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" is a memoir by Mike Brown, the American astronomer most responsible for the reclassification of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. It is an account of the events surrounding the redefinition of 'planet' that eventually changed the status of Pluto.