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TIL Sal Mineo found Jill Haworth and Aaron Spelling at a private Beverly Hills nightclub and punched Spelling in the face, yelling, "Do you know how old she is? What are you doing with her at your age?"

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4X4Y6 TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”
GYMWJ TIL that Ken Jennings' historic Jeopardy! run nearly ended before it began. Jennings' first Final Jeopardy answer of "Who is Jones" had to be adjudicated before it was allowed. If he hadn't been given credit, he would have finished in 3rd, on his first episode.
mxVDO TIL that in 1993, the entire city of San Francisco voted about whether a police officer was allowed to carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty while on patrol. He was.
awpK9 TIL that Charlie No-Face or the Green Man was an urban legend about a monster who walked along the side of a highway at night in Pennsylvania. In reality, he was a man named Raymond Robinson, and he went out at night so that his face, disfigured in a childhood accident, wouldn't scare people.
e09rg TIL of the Flower wars, ritualistic wars fought between the Aztec Empire and neighboring states. Armies would meet at an agreed time and place and fight using only melee weapons. The (probable) purpose was to use the losers for human sacrifices.