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TIL…that in 2015 an NFL player was charged with killing his ex-girlfriend’s Yorkshire terrier. His plea? Self-Defense.

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b9lg9 TIL that a former CBS anchor and Fox weatherman quit his job to become a gay porn star
5YvWn TIL Thurgood Marshall was almost lynched in Tennessee after winning the acquittals of 23 Black men. He was saved only because his co-counsel decided to follow Marshall and the police and intervene, instead of following orders to leave town.
mxDBY TIL that jazz legend Louis Armstrong loved laxatives. In fact, he printed cards which bore a picture of him sitting on a toilet—as viewed through a keyhole—with the slogan "Satch says, 'Leave it all behind ya!'"
nWnRr TIL the first American spy satellites literally dropped their film from space in a "film bucket" that was then scooped up in midair by a plane.
1abOW TIL Hitler suffered from presbyopia and secretly wore reading glasses. He avoided to be seen in public with glasses as he believed they would compromise his ability to capture people by means of mimic, gestures as well as of his expression