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TIL Jerry Springer was elected to the Cincinnati City Council in 1971, was forced to step down 3 years later after admitting to soliciting a prostitute, and then was re-elected the next year by a landslide

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NXvVJ TIL about Chai tea, naan bread, and double names
BodL TIL when Yvonne Brill, the inventor of the electrothermal hydrazine thruster for rocket propulsion, died, the first line of her New York Times obituary read, “She made a mean beef stroganoff”
mx1XE TIL 12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife, from the Bible.
Rag9 TIL over half of all gun related deaths in the U.S. are suicides. Roughly 40% are homicides.
Z8mLD TIL that there are seven mathematic problems, so called "Millenium Problems", with a prize tag of $1 million attached to each of them. One got solved and the mathematician (Perelman) rejected the prize because he thinks it's unfair.