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TIL the president of the NAACP is a white guy.

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d7KK TIL a man spend $40,000 buying out two IMAX theaters to prove ex-girlfriend wrong. “His ex-girlfriend dumped him seven years ago because he couldn’t afford two movie tickets for a date”.
LQ1Bv TIL about the Forty Elephants, a gang of women shoplifters (with custom clothing) who operated in London and beyond from the 19th century to the 1950s. They also engaged in looting, blackmail, fencing, and were successful in turf wars through kidnapping.
Vbn0 TIL that “Bennie And The Jets” by Elton John ISN’T a live recording but that producer Gus Dudgeon wanted a live feel on the recording, so he mixed in crowd noise and whistles into the song.
7rBEO TIL a British millionaire who bought the Segway company died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his Yorkshire estate
GYrMJ TIL Thalaikoothal is the traditional practice of involuntary euthanasia, by their own family members, observed in some parts of southern districts of Tamil Nadu state of India.