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TIL Michael B. Jordan’s father is named Michael A. Jordan

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bBl4 TIL that 58% of Russians don’t know who built the Berlin Wall, 10% think Berlin residents built it themselves, 6% think Western powers built it, and 4% think it was a bilateral agreement between the Soviet Union and the West
KOg0w TIL upon being told he couldn't go to Disneyland due to security concerns, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev went berserk. He said afterwards, "Is there an epidemic of cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken hold of the place that can destroy me?” Khrushchev left LA the next morning.
DQGkY TIL of “character amnesia,” a phenomenon where native Chinese speakers have trouble writing words once known to them due to the rise of computers and word processors. The issue is so prevalent that there is an idiom describing it: 提笔忘字, literally meaning "pick up pen, forget the character."
EpRP TIL that Newman’s Own donates 100% of their profits to charity and when its founder Paul Newman was alive, he donated all of his income and royalty earnings.
69M8J TIL about the Markovic Affair a political scandal in France in 1968 that followed a violent death of Stefan Marković, a friend and bodyguard of actor Alain Delon. The press speculated Delon was involved. Marković's murder is still unsolved.