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TIL Prince hated comparisons to Jimi Hendrix saying the only thing in common they had was being black.

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Br5ND TIL about Wrong Way Corrigan. In 1938 he was denied permission to make a solo transatlantic flight because his plane was unsafe, but given the okay to fly to California. He took off, made a U-turn, and disappeared into the clouds. 28 hours later he landed in Ireland, claiming his compass had broken.
Yb9G TIL in 2003 a herd of elephants encircled a camp of antelope hunters in Empangani, South Africa. The 11 elephants surrounded the enclosure keeping the hunters at bay, while the matriarch used her trunk to unhook the gates of the captured antelope, allowing them to run free.
vdaB TIL: Tim Martin, the owner of the Weatherspoons pub chain in the UK named it after his schoolteacher who said he would never amount to anything in business.
ANYwl TIL about Panda Diplomacy. Panda diplomacy is the practice of gifting giant pandas from China to other countries as a tool of diplomacy.
4Xb5g TIL that the due to internet popularity, Sammy Griner, the child from the 'Success Kid' meme raised enough money to fund his father's kidney transplant.