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TIL that Elvis Presley had a foot fetish, and had women's feet checked before he would see them

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deQ7 TIL a black man in the mid 1960’s, not allowed to join or play at the local country clubs, built his own golf course using his own land and taught the neighborhood kids golf for free.
RLo4 TIL there was a thoroughbred racehorse with a series of significant wins in the late eighteenth century named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os.
R7Jn4 TIL that the white mustache-looking skin above a pigeon's beak is called a wattle, and that it mainly serves to release excess heat from the bird's body. It's actually a trait that many birds have, such as the red piece of skin below a rooster's neck.
4eno TIL Chickens will share responsibility of sitting on eggs and raising young, they let other chickens know about food before feeding themselves, and they warn each other of predators.
p74A TIL that Ronald Reagan’s son, Ron Reagan, is a politically active liberal atheist and a contributing commentator on MSNBC.