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TIL in 1976, Henry Kissinger became the first honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

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x660b TIL about Chesterton's Fence, i.e. the principle that you should not make reforms to a system without first understanding the current state of affairs present in that system.
VMyZZ TIL annually since 1993, Literary Review magazine has presented the Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author who has written the worst sex scene in a novel. Morrissey won in 2015, and in 2008 John Updike received a lifetime achievement award.
WgnN TIL that a mom who set her daughter’s rapist on fire was originally sentenced to more jail time than he was.
erAn TIL France wants to ensure all new rooftops must be topped with either solar panels or plants
5men TIL early firefighters weren’t paid with cash, instead they first grabbed all valuable items out of the victims house or business, then would sell those items or keep them for themselves.