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TIL when asked why she left her hometown of Michigan, Madonna said she was tired of being around "basic, provincial-thinking people."

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KojE TIL: In 2008 a small town mayor was mistakenly raided by a swat team. He was held at gun point and claims his dogs we’re killed for sport, one while it was running away.
OolEa TIL No authentic writings of Pythagoras have survived. Almost nothing is known for certain about his life. The earliest source describes Pythagoras helping a dog that had been beaten. Pythagoras thought he could recognise his friend's voice in the dog's cries.
VB1lB TIL that the director of ‘American Psycho’ is the daughter of the guy who played Charlie Farquharson on ‘Hee Haw’
vkR4 TIL: Polish Resistance hero Witold Pilecki got himself arrested in 1942 so he could report to the West about the truth of what was happening in Auschwitz. He later organized the Warsaw Uprising. The post-war Communist government suppressed all information about him until 1989.
BvL TIL Jimmy Carter supports gay marriage because “Jesus never said gay people should be condemned”.