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TIL about the My Lai Massacre. Where The US Army Murdered an estimated 500 Unarmed Civilians

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NXrAe TIL Memphis, TN, had 4 mayors between December 31, 1939 and January 1, 1940. A new one who had already served as mayor was sworn in at midnight on January 1 and immediately resigned, then the Vice Mayor temporarily became mayor while they chose someone else to be mayor.
v1B9R TIL a 54 year old New Yorker called Darius McCollum has been arrested over 30 times for illegally driving New York City public transport. He claims an overwhelming compulsion to do this due to this Asperger's. He is currently locked up with little chance of release.
R714j TIL: Marge Simpson's hairstyle was originally designed to hide rabbit ears for an eventual reveal that she was secretly a rabbit from Matt Groening's comic strip "Life in Hell."
ZwJR TIL that the San Francisco Fog has a twitter account and its name is Karl
EgeAw TIL why Tom Wolfe wore a white suit. The pioneer of 'New Journalism' said that the unusual clothing caused others to see him as "a man from Mars, the man who didn't know anything and was eager to know", so talked freely to him. The white suit became Wolfe's trademark from 1962 to his death.