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TIL a 14 year old pretended to work for “Canadian News” and scored at 40 minute interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono

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VBRmk TIL That in 2013, Sir David Attenborough joined the rock guitarists Brian May and Slash in opposing the government's policy on the cull of badgers in the UK by participating in a song dedicated to badgers.
N7RNe TIL a Canadian 'Scared Straight' guard once took a teenager into a 'rape room' where several inmates assaulted him sexually. The officer then laughed and threw him to a wall, saying "Thats what happens to little fuckers like you".
KYmrE TIL Arthur Wharton, born Ghana, 1865, became the 100 yard world record holder for 30 years, the world's first professional black soccer player, a cycling champion, a professional cricketer and then a top level rugby player. He died penniless in 1930 and was buried in an unmarked paupers grave.
4krl5 TIL that there are four unratified amendments to the Constitution that are still technically "pending" approval by the states. Dating back to 1789, they deal with subjects like banning child labor, stripping citizenship from anyone who accepts a title of nobility, and permanently legalizing slavery.
pYvOe TIL “Just Desserts” is a pun. The original phrase, “Just Deserts”, describes not desert climates but “moral deserts”—or, things which one morally deserves. “Desert” and “Deserve” share an old French root, but the word “desert” is very rarely used in this form in modern day.