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TIL Gandhi never said, “First, they ignore you. Then, they ridicule you. And then, they attack you and want to burn you. And then, they build monuments to you.” It was a union leader. Nicholas Klein said it in a 1914 address to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in Baltimore.

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GYBy5 TIL when Eminem was releasing Slim Shady EP, he claimed that Insane Clown Posse would be at the release party without asking any member of ICP. When Violent J from ICP asked him about that claim, Em told him “Maybe you will be there; I don’t know. [...] You guys comin’ to my release party, or what?”
6lZ TIL on “Moment of Truth,” a show requiring contestants to truthfully, as per a polygraph, a contestant won the $500,000 grand prize with the final question asking if she felt her polygamist father had sexual relations as an adult with a minor. She believed he had. The episode never aired.
EYow TIL that the No Child Left Behind Act was responsible for canceling the TV show Reading Rainbow.
ZQgB TIL: Johnny Cash guest stared in The Simpsons voicing a fox that Homer hallucinated after eating a spicy pepper.
d6dj TIL that it’s been mathematically proven that one cannot comb a hairy ball without creating a cowlick.