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TIL that Henry Kissinger was an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters

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J1nk8 TIL that India's largest political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has nearly double the membership of the Chinese Communist Party.
pYxL4 TIL of Sandy Woodward who commanded the British task force during the Falklands War and ensured that the Argentinian forces were defeated, before Winter made this impossible, mapping the logistics out accordingly.
D1RlP TIL metals permanently fuse when touching each other in outer space, an effect known as 'cold welding'
1ab6V TIL that Gil Scott-Heron's song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was a response to the spoken-word piece "When the Revolution Comes" by The Last Poets and which opens with the line "When the revolution comes some of us will probably catch it on TV".
yQLkw TIL that in July 2014, six sealed glass vials of smallpox dated 1954 were discovered by chance in a storage room in an FDA laboratory at the NIH in Maryland. Upon transfer to the CDC in Atlanta, two of the vials had virus which proved to be viable in culture. They were destroyed 7 months later.