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TIL that Michael Jordan’s former personal assitant and one of his best friends is the limo driver who picked him up when he arrived for the first time in Chicago

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mxjox TIL in 2000, incumbent John Ashcroft lost to a dead man in the election for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat
GYxjQ TIL that weddings that cost more than $20,000 were found to be correlated with a higher rate of divorce than less expensive weddings.
P9Kw TIL: William Ellison (1790 – 1861), a freed slave, became a wealthy plantation owner, supported the Confederate States of America and held 60 of his own slaves
rNO9o TIL: To "protect the truth," a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.
4X5vw TIL that "Blue Blood" as a synonym for royalty, came from Spain following the Reconquista, in which some spanish nobles would show their pale skin, with blue veins showing, as proof that they had never mixed with the Moors who occupied Spain for centuries.