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TIL That Rodney King Was Pulled Over For A Traffic Violation by the LAPD on March 3, 2011. Exactly 20 years after his beating.

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1oO4 TIL that right before the Cuba embargo took effect, President Kennedy had his secretary buy 1,2000 Cuban cigars
8YL8 TIL in 1998, Wu Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard witnessed a car crash from the window of his Brooklyn recording studio. He and a friend coordinated onlookers and lifted one of the cars to rescue a four year old girl, whom ODB visited in hospital under a fake name.
wLMV8 TIL when John Balson started off as a butcher in Dorset in 1535, Henry VIII was on the throne. Hundreds of years later, the Balson family continues to trade just a few streets away from where their first market stall was set up in Bridport. They are the oldest family business in UK.
x6JWB TIL about Garoé, a tree of unknown species, revered by the ancient Bimbache Indians on the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, which was said to have the power to generate rain and provide water like a fountain. was the only way these people could get water.
nyGY TIL that the cat that featured in The Godfather purred so loudly that some of Marlon Brando’s dialogue had to be re-dubbed