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TIL Madonna's older brother Anthony lived to age 66, was estranged from family, and lived under a bridge at one point

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Md50 TIL Reporter Geraldo Rivera was kicked out of Iraq after drawing a map in the sand giving details of US locations and future plans during a live broadcast.
mLwY TIL the LAPD had Christine Collins committed to a psych ward in 1928 after her son Walter went missing because when the LAPD “found him” 5 months later, she denied that the boy returned to her was her child. The boy eventually confessed to being a runaway. The real Walter was never found.
x67p1 TIL that slavery was still legal in the British Empire as late as 1964 (in the Federation of South Arabia, previously the Aden Colony, now part of Yemen)
x6ENo TIL the man who eats practically only Big Macs featured in ‘Supersize me’ has a problem with his tastebuds and often doesn’t even taste the sandwiches
1xKr TIL that Russian and NATO troops were very close to using force against each other in Kosovo, 1999. A NATO commander disobeyed the orders he was given, reportedly saying “I’m not going to start the Third World War for you” to his superior, who was later fired.