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TIL Madonna dated painter Jean-Michel Basquiat before she hit it big

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4XGag TIL the 2nd oldest person to host Saturday Night Live was a non-celebrity who was born in 1897. Miskel Spillman, a German immigrant, joked "I'm 80 years old. I need one more cheap thrill, since my doctor told me I only have another 25 years left."
Y1DA TIL: Japanese game-show contestants are actually trained comedians, because the average Japanese person is too reserved to demonstrate the fear and anguish of being conveyored into another man’s butt-cheeks.
EYVo TIL that Japan is using more and more blue street lights to reduce suicide and crime
Me6n7 TIL About Africville, the black community of Halifax that was purposefully neglected by the city in an effort to make it un-livable. Halifax denied sewage, roads, and other services, even creating a toxic waste dump nearby, eventually Halifax bulldozed the community with people still in their houses
NmYJ TIL that some Syrian Rebels are fighting with STG-44 rifles manufactured in Nazi Germany.