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Til Mr.T was once diagnosed with a rare type of T-cell lymphoma. He than said “Can you imagine that?!,” Mr. T asks. “Cancer with my name on it –– personalized cancer.”

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kOVD5 TIL The Vatican once sent a priest to find out if Shirley Temple was secretly an adult with dwarfism.
mxBAP TIL NPR radio host Ira Glass, who has done the show "This American Life" since 1996, received a raise from $170,000 to $278,000 in 2013. Glass said this raise was "unseemly" and asked it to be lowered to $146,000.
gM0WD TIL about the oldest known song in human history, “Hurrian Hymn no. 6”, dating back to a 1400 BC Sumerian clay tablet
a8A5Z TIL The French engineer Henri Dupuy de Lôme built the first steam powered warship and the first ironclad warship. Other works by Lôme include airships and an early electric submarine.
PYbEO TIL after oil was discovered on their homelands, 60 or more wealthy, full-blood Osage native Americans were killed from 1918 to 1931. The murders appear to have been committed by people intent on taking over their great wealth, whose land was producing valuable oil, and had annual royalties.