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TIL That the websleuths forum has called Benjaman Kyle out as a faker and has archived the case.

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xV5Qg TIL in 2009 the rapper Coolio attempted to stage dive, but nobody in the crowd caught him. Instead, they beat him up and stole his shoes and jewellery.
rRpNW TIL JFK's "Death Limo" was rebuilt after his assignation and used into the Carter administration.
lkO7 TIL George Wallace, the famed segregationist governor of Alabama, got his wife elected to subvert term limits. To do so, he hid her cancer diagnosis from her, lest treatment adversely affect her campaign. The only female Governor of Alabama died less than two hundred days into her term.
8a5lb TIL there used to be a sport called Ferret-legging, where a ferret is trapped in a contestant’s pants, while not wearing underwear.
lomDV TIL that in 1975, Roslyn Mayor William Craven, the first African-American mayor in the state of Washington, was elected with 272 votes, while his opponent only got 33.