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TIL John Legend used to date Osama Bin Laden's niece.
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TIL You don’t see white dog poop anymore due to the reduction of bone meal in dog foods; the calcium in bone meal is what turned the poop white.
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TIL that actor Mark Lindsay Chapman, lost the part of John Lennon in a 1985 biopic because Yoko Ono thought him having the same name as Lennon's killer was "bad karma". Linsday would eventually play Lennon in the 2007 movie Chapter 27... a movie that mostly focused on his killer, Mark David Chapman
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TIL A popular 1865 song was called “Jeff in petticoats”, due to the rumor of the former confederate president trying to escape arrest by disguising himself in his wife’s clothes.
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TIL of the Petticoat Affair, where the wives of every member of Andrew Jacksons Cabinet ostracized John Eaton and his wife Peggy from social events. Martin Van Buren had to resign as Secretary of State in order to resolve the issue.
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TIL In 2001, a Yakuza mob boss named Tadamasa Goto gave a $100,000 donation to UCLA. In exchange, they gave him a liver transplant, allowing him to jump the queue. That same year, 186 people in the Los Angeles area died while waiting for a liver transplant. The FBI was also involved.