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TIL that before being sentenced to prison, rapper Meek Mill's judge allegedly requested he abandon his record label to sign with her friend, and that he cover a Boys II Men song mentioning her name. At the same trial, the court clerk passed Mill a note asking him to help pay her son's tuition.

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oRpMK TIL Todd Field, director and writer of Tár, helped create the first batch of Big League Chew bubble gum
GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”
b6r14 TIL There is an International Seabed Authority and it is based in Kingston, Jamaica
dDjk9 TIL that Singapore People's Action Party is the longest uninterrupted governing party among modern multiparty parliamentary democracies. It has been governing for 65 years, and it is the second-longest governing party in history after Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party
oBboA TIL about Operation Mincemeat during WW2 where the British dressed up a dead body as a royal marine and placed on his person misleading evidence that the allies would invade Greece, not Sicily. The body was found by the Germans, who rerouted their resources, and the allies attacked and won Sicily