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TIL Janis Ian met Bill Cosby on tour as a teenager. Cosby, presuming she was a lesbian, is alleged to have warned television shows that she was “not suitable family entertainment” due to her sexuality, and attempted to have her blacklisted.

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rNWoy TIL Enthusiasm was originally used to refer to someone possessed by God and Socrates taught that the inspiration of poets was a form of enthusiasm
XEnaj TIL the last words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr were, "make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord. Play it real pretty." Seconds later he was shot. The song ends with "through the storm, through the night, lead me on to the light. Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home"
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5VMVB TIL Travis, the chimpanzee that was famous for ripping a woman’s face off, also was struck by a bottle thrown by a pedestrian, at a stop light, before unbuckling his seatbelt, jumping out the window, and chasing the man on foot then disappearing for several hours.
d8m9d TIL in 1970, a gay man discovered a loophole in Minnesota law that said gay marriage wasn't explicitly illegal, as long as officials allowed it. He then changed his name legally from 'Jack' to 'Pat Lyn' and fooled officials into thinking he was a woman — successfully getting a gay marriage license.