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TIL Larry King crashed into John F. Kennedy’s car in 1958. John F. Kennedy said he’d forget the whole thing if King promised to vote for him when he ran for president.

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RjB4 TIL that the 100 richest people on earth have an accumulated wealth of 2.09 trillion USD. If they were a country, it would be the 13th richest country on the globe, just beneath Italy and above South Korea.
5wrr TIL Mozart composed the overture to his opera “Don Giovanni” the morning of the premiere
b6EyQ TIL Michael Bay was under consideration to direct the movie Phone Booth (2002), but he was removed from consideration after the first question he had about the script was, "OK, how do we get this thing out of the damn telephone booth?"
6OeW TIL in 1925 an all-black baseball team in Wichita, Kansas played an exhibition against a local KKK Klavern, with Irish Catholics serving as umpires. The black team won 10-8.
XnaE TIL that mothers are more likely to abuse their children.