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

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oRjjW TIL that Henry IV (1367-1413) was the first English King to speak English as his native language following the Norman Conquest of 1066
P5En TIL In Tennessee, ex-felons who have turned their lives around can now receive a certificate of employability, which gives businesses who hire such individuals protection from negligent hiring lawsuits. Law effective 1/1/15
WLoo TIL Blowing into your Nintendo cartridges didn’t actually help, it only damaged them
yQDA8 TIL Glaucoma is almost always caused by too much pressure inside one or both eyes. People don’t typically experience symptoms until the optic nerve has already been damaged and glaucoma usually occurs later in life, but it can happen at any age
8Bd8 TIL engineers that worked on the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” aircraft couldn’t come up with a proper fuel sealing system that could handle the thermal expansion of the airframe at extreme temperatures, so the aircraft would leak jet fuel on the runway.