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TIL Mississippi has the highest rate of STDs in America

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d8WJ8 TIL struggling black model Amylia Dorsey kept getting rejected because she didn't fit the prototypical body type for models. This enraged her rapper boyfriend Sir Mix-A-Lot to write "Baby Got Back" and asked Amylia to be the "OMG Becky" voice we hear in the song.
m14ny TIL Purple is the rarest colour on national flags. In fact, of the 196 countries of the world, virtually none of them use purple on their national flag.
5gAD TIL Former Liberian President, Charles King, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history, having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country with 15,000 registered voters
8NDG TIL: The Third World was so named during the Cold War to describe countries not aligned with the US or USSR, and had nothing to do with poverty
XErx6 TIL TIL The founding fathers feared the development of political parties. Among others, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and George Washington wrote about the dangers of domestic politic factions.