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TIL when asked what happened to Carol Brady’s first husband, Florence Henderson would say “I killed him.”

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gMJn9 TIL in the early 2000's Serena and Venus Williams, along with their father Richard, were regularly accused of "match fixing" when the sisters competed against one another. One incident, where Venus pulled out entirely from a semifinal match against her sister (tendinitis), had fans demanding refunds
a8Y89 TIL that, as the name might suggest, Billboard magazine was originally the trade publication for bill posters and billboard installers.
6Zym TIL that Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics not for his work on the famous E=mcˆ2 equation or special relativity, but for his work on the photoelectric effect; an effect that forms the basis of photosynthesis.
x6N7B TIL that the International Olympic Committee is in cahoots with WADA to hide Chinese doping scandals
BrwPL TIL on 1838, in order to pay off debts of Georgetown College, the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 slaves from their plantations. The buyers were Louisiana sugarcane planters.