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TIL that professional wrestler "Kane" is the current Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee

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A5en TIL that when the CEO of the Sesame Street Workshop was asked if Bert and Ernie are gay, he replied, “They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They don’t exist below the waist.”
j6XOX Today I learned about Dick Rowe, a British Music executive who declined to sign the Beatles in 1962. Despite missing out on one of the biggest bands in history, Rowe later took a suggestion from George Harrison and gave a record contract to The Rolling Stones.
0wRrj TIL the U.S. Congress passed a tax on long distance phone calls to pay for the Spanish-American War (1898). The war ended 4 months later, but the tax remained in place for over 100 years. On August 1, 2006, the IRS announced it would no longer collect the tax.
gY09 TIL of Robert Smalls, a seaman-slave during the American Civil War who stole a warship when the Confederate sailors went whoring and sailed himself and his family to freedom. Then fought for the Union. Then became a successful businessman and bought his former masters house.
ajGb TIL In 2004, a group in Melbourne, Victoria organised an event where 30 men would grow a moustache for 30 days in order to raise awareness for prostate cancer and depression in men. The group later formed into the “Movember Foundation Charity” which has since raised $174-million worldwide.