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TIL that Star Trek's William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols performed the first interracial kiss on TV. At the time polls showed that fewer than 20 percent of Americans agreed with interracial relationships.

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Lkrj9 TIL bees poop, dropping yellow globs of undigested pollen grains while flying.
rRWP0 TIL : IN 2006, a man in Portland, Oregon hired a hitman to kill his 51-year-old wife. His wife ended up killing the hitman with her bare hands. When Susan Kuhnhausen had her hands on his neck she asked him, "TELL ME WHO SENT YOU HERE AND I WILL CALL YOU A FUCKING AMBULANCE!"
0dJg5 TIL that the world record for the fastest shoelace tying is a 15.51 seconds by Álvaro Martín Mendieta (Spain)
mx7Xo TIL "We have the technology to totally fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding context-appropriate prose, which would drown out all other speech and be impossible to filter." Jeremy Howard
mxp8E TIL Vincent Van Gogh gave his 1889 'Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey' to Dr. Rey (The physician who had treated his severed ear). The physician was not fond of the painting and used it to repair a chicken coop, then gave it away. In 2016, the portrait was estimated to be worth over $50 million