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TIL The Stonewall Inn was owned by the US Mafia

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grBJ9 TIL Puss in Boots is a character from a classic fairy tale from the 1500s
MevXa TIL that every year, a regatta is held in Alice Springs. Due to the lack of water in Central Australia, contestants have to carry bottomless "boats" trough a dried-out river. When the river did carry water in 1993, the regatta became "the only regatta ever cancelled because of wet weather".
mk6M TIL No president of the United States of America was an only child
7rLlr TIL, "Take Poo to the Loo" was an Indian social media campaign led by UNICEF to combat the country's problems with open defecation.
jNmAM TIL the movie Big (1988) was co-written by Steven Spielberg’s sister, Anne Spielberg. It’s her only official credit for a major film and was Oscar-nominated for it.