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TIL that CeCe Peniston was the first foreign female entertainer to perform in post-apartheid South Africa.

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V9RQ TIL in 1927, Calvin Coolidge walked outside of his vacation home to waiting reporters, handed them a slip of paper that said, “I do not choose to run for President in nineteen-twenty-eight.”, took no questions, and went back inside.
epnlE TIL the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in April 1989 that would delay the end of PDT in presidential election years until after the election. Never signed into law, Pacific-New was inserted into many west coast Unix systems and they failed to make the conversion to PST on 1992 Oct 25.
pY7re TIL The founder of France's criminal investigative agency, Eugène François Vidocq, was an escaped convict. Vidocq's superiors would repeatedly receive messages from jails demanding Vidocq's arrest, they were ignored and ultimately Vidocq received a pardon from King Louis XVIII.
ADloo TIL that they hit dead popes in the head with a hammer, just to make sure.
78P6x TIL that eight years after JFK’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy avoided the public unveiling of their White House portraits, but the Nixons graciously agreed to a secret, private tour for her and her kids. It was her only return visit.