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78dQM TIL that after the success of NWA, the Bloods & Crips formed their own eponymous rap group. Auditions were held with real gang members, who were envious of NWA's success in popularizing "gangsta rap". The gangs ended their collaboration after releasing two albums.
ep9D6 TIL that while a kilogram is defined by a physcal object (the only object in the world that weighs exactly 1kg), a pound is legally defined as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms
X0K4k TIL of the Mishima incident. On 11/25/1970, Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and his militia entered a military base in Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and tried to get the Japan Self-Defense Forces to restore national defense and the emperor divinity. After this failed, he committed seppuku.