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TIL Afrika Bambaataa (considered to be one of the founding fathers of hip hop) has been accused by multiple people of sexual molestation dating back to the 1970s.

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awkvy TIL the daughter of the first interracially married couple in Mississippi is a lesbian who fought for marriage equality
lJG5 TIL Norwegians pay half tax in November, so everyone has more money for Christmas.
Jj5Q TIL the political terms “left/right” come from seating arrangements in the French Assembly during the revolution: revolutionaries to the left, and monarchists to the right
VM604 TIL that of the 21 people executed for witchcraft in Iceland, 20 of them where male and only one was a woman.
Rd81 TIL: That the Soviet Diplomat Molotov was reportedly the only man to ever “shake hands” with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill.