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TIL that Paul Bunyan stories were the 19th century logger equivalent of Chuck Norris jokes

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4XNQo TIL Pablo Escobar, despite being a wanted crime lord, took a photo with his son in front of the White House.
9YKyB TIL that when King Alfonso of Castile died of bubonic plague on 27 March 1350, he became the only reigning monarch to die in The Black Death.
4XPPa TIL that July 12th is arguably the birthday of England, as it was on 12 July 927 that King Athelstan's overlordship of the Kingdom of York was recognized, making him the first ruler of all the territory of what we now know as England
0w6Nj TIL about Lou Pearlman, a music producer and con man who managed both the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, defrauding both bands out of millions. He went on to run one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history, leaving more than $300 million in debts to investors
7Agb TIL “[FBI] agents sought to persuade Martin Luther King Jr. to kill himself just before he received the Nobel Prize. ‘King, there is one thing left for you to do. You know what it is,’ FBI operatives wrote in their anonymous letter.”